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1810}
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{abstract- Transcription of A Description of Sixty Studies from Nature by 
William Green, Ambleside, Westmorland, published by the author, by Longman,
Hurst, Rees and Orme, and by Mr Mann,  London, 1810.}

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1810}

{text- Transcription of A Description of Sixty Studies from Nature. and A 
General Guide to the Beauties of the North of England, by William Green, 
Ambleside, Westmorland, published by the author, by Longman, Hurst, Rees 
and Orme, Paternoster Row, and by Mr Mann, 114 New Bond Street, London, 
1810.}

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{text- The booklet was published separately from the set of prints. 
Although it is a catalogue of the prints it is also a guide book, a General
Guide to the Beauties of the North of England.}

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A DESCRIPTION OF SIXTY Studies from Nature; ETCHED IN THE SOFT GROUND, BY 
WILLIAM GREEN, OF AMBLESIDE; AFTER DRAWINGS MADE BY HIMSELF IN CUMBERLAND, 
WESTMORLAND, AND LANCASHIRE. COMPRISING, A GENERAL GUIDE TO THE BEAUTIES OF
THE NORTH OF ENGLAND. The Price of the Prints, unbound, including the 
Description, is Ten Guineas; the Description may be had sepa- rately for 
Two Shillings and Sixpence.



LONDON: Printed for the Author, by J. BARFIELD. 91. Wardour Street. AND 
PUBLISHED BY Messrs. LONGMAN, HURST, REES, and ORME, Pater- noster-row; Mr.
MANN, 114, New Bond-street; and W. GREEN, Ambleside, Westmorland. 1810.


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Presented by the [writer] to / Mr James Ward, and with / great respect for 
his profes / [sio]nal abilit[ie]s


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{text- It is interesting to find several passages where the artist notes 
how he has re-arranged nature to make a <i>better</i> picture. In the 
indexing these are keyworded <i>artist's licence</i>.}

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original, but not text sizes; italics are preserved; the spellings and 
grammar have not been altered. Hyphenation across a line break is difficult
to resolve, as the author, or the typesetter, is not consistent. Thus, you 
might find water-fall and waterfall in different parts of the text, and if 
this is split across a line break with a hypen it is not clear whether the 
hyphen should be kept or not.}

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{text- An attempt has been made to index this work; keywords have been 
allocated to each page of the transcript. Many index keys include the 
placename and its locality or civil parish, matching the place identifier 
in the Old Cumbria Gazetteer; where William Green's spelling is different 
from today's the index key is his term plus the current spelling in 
brackets. Index keys are provided even if there is little information about
the place in the text; informative text is added to the place entry in the 
Old Cumbria Gazetteer.}
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INTRODUCTION.



THE man who would paint well, has much to learn - he has much more, 
however, to avoid learning.



Antiquity, deeply attentive to the perfection of the human form, has 
bequeathed to us such combinations of beauty in her marbles, as are never 
to be met with in living individuals. - It might naturally be inferred that
all who have an eye tolerably correct, and who place these models before 
them for imitation, would benefit in proportion to the time which they 
bestow on their study.



Why is this not the fact?

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Practice serves but to establish the unhappy mannerist in his vices. He 
repeats daily, what each repetition renders more disgusting, and at length 
sinks into obscurity, neglected, for new visionaries, by those who 
applauded the errors of his youthful pencil, and confirmed him in their 
adoption.



A similar, perhaps a greater danger exists in the study of landscape.



The antique, and the living subject, are easily accessible. They may both 
be successfully studied under the roof of Somerset House. But there is no 
roof, except the canopy of heaven,under which the landscape painter can 
study with advantage. Man, or his image, may be moved at pleasure;


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but mountains remain eternally on their bases, and rivers flow in an 
unchanging current, far from the seat of rank and opulence, and the 
consequent residence of those artists, (and many they are) who prefer 
drinking the stream after it has passed through a variety of impure 
channels, to resorting to the fountain head. This cause combines with the 
influence of fashion, and the most opposite manners are thus generated. 
Those who are wrong do not even wish to be right; but, viewing all nature 
through the medium of a confirmed manner, pronounce every thing in art to 
be erroneous that does not exactly correspond with their practice.



Without, in the slightest degree,

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intending to depreciate the merit of the landscape painters of the present 
day, among whom there are artists of the greatest talents, the writer 
confidently appeals to the walls of the Royal Academy, of the British 
Gallery, and of the two Water-colour Societies, for proofs of the different
modes in which different landscape painters have been taught, or have 
taught themselves, "to see nature," as it is termed.



Yet nature is invariable. -



Fully sensible of his own defects as an artist, defects arising in a great 
degree from causes connected with the foregoing observations, the writer 
settled at Ambleside in the year 1800, with a view to remedy his errors. 
The


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object which he has unceasingly pursued for the last ten years has been to 
divest himself as much as possible of manner, and to adhere as faithfully 
as possible to nature. How far he may have succeeded, it is not for him to 
determine.



Proposals were made in the spring of 1807, for publishing sixty prints from
sketches of his largest size. In 1808, thirty of the sixty were laid before
the public; in 1809, twelve more; and the remaining eighteen are now 
published. He trusts that they will be found good examples for beginners in
the art, who may wish to acquire some mechanical facility before they apply
to nature herself. For the accommodation of those who prefer

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smaller prints, the writer published, last summer, a set of seventy-eight 
plates, price five guineas; to be had, of the publishers of the present 
work.



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A DESCRIPTION, &amp;c.



{marginal = plate 1; Coniston Water}
No. 1.



CONISTON WATER.



CONISTON water is six miles in length, and the greatest breadth three 
quarters of a mile; it is encircled by an excellent road, which is often on
the margin of the water and scarcely ever a mile from it: the most 
interesting part of this road is that which lies on the eastern side of the
lake, and is a part of that usually travelled by tourists in their way to 
Coniston, or Hawkshead, from Ulverstone.



The views on this road are interesting by their variety and their beauty, 
all the way from Nibthwaite, which lies at the foot, to the New Inn, which

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is at the head of the lake: the first view after leaving Nibthwaite is of 
the Man, a mountain somewhat conical, and of other summits scarcely 
inferior in height. - This grand cluster of Lancashire mountains, probably 
covering an horizontal area of thirty square miles, is joined by those of 
Cumberland and Westmorland, five or six miles west and north of the head of
the lake; advance a little, and the mountains of Yewdale will present 
themselves, and beyond them, those of Rydal and Grasmere, aerial by 
distance, will not fail to give pleasure to the mind capable of being moved
by all bounteous and ever-varying nature.



The view here presented is a mile from the foot of the lake, and is of the 
Man mountain, or, as it is more frequently called, the Old Man, with the 
pointed summit of Enfoot on the right, and Dove Crag on the left, a range 
of line probably more picturesque than is


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exhibited by these mountains on any stand from or near the road before 
spoken of; the middle grounds and foregrounds are, however, better on some 
stations north of the one here chosen.



The shores on this side of the lake are varied with bold promontories and 
islands, and travelling northward the middle ground materials improve and 
become highly interesting, when about two miles from the head of the lake; 
Coniston Hall is here a good object, though probably half a mile distant, 
and will serve as a principal to the sprinkling of farm houses and 
cottages, which compose the village of Coniston. These buildings are 
agreeably dispersed over gentle eminences, intersecting each other in easy 
and elegantly undulating lines. Coniston Hall is a picturesque old 
building; it is partly in ruins, and a considerable portion, not only of 
the ruined, but the habitable

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parts, covered with ivy; trees have been suffered to remain near the hall, 
and they are in unison with it, being chiefly aged sycamores; nor are the 
farms and cottages without their accompaniments of wood, which, though of 
humble growth, are scattered about the buildings and enclosures in groups, 
hedge-rows, and single trees. The Old Man and his neighbours finish the 
scene in a grand style, which, though generally fine, is rendered 
infinitely more interesting when seen after much rain, by that variety of 
sparkling waterfalls which issue from the fissures of the mountains.



{marginal = plate 2; Coniston Waterhead}
No. 2.



BUILDINGS AT CONISTON WATERHEAD.



The New Inn at Waterhead stands near the head of the lake, and this scene 
is upon the road from the church and


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village of Coniston, by that inn to Ambleside; it is about two or three 
hundred yards from the inn, and that distance from the mansion house, 
called Waterhead, the property of --- Knott, Esq. and which is still nearer
Ambleside.



An artist will make various useful selections from these buildings, under 
different points of view, and he may gain advantage from studies of the 
local colouring.



{marginal = plate 3; Yewdale}
No. 3.



YEWDALE, NEAR CONISTON.



The valley of Yewdale, lies about a mile north-west of Coniston Waterhead.



Near the house, part of which is seen in this view, is the famous yew tree,
tall and beautifully picturesque, but not umbrageous like these of 
Patterdale and Lorton; the hill on the

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right is Raven Crag, that in the distance Enfoot.



From the roads intersecting each other in Yewdale and its vicinity may be 
collected useful materials for the use of landscape painting; but that road
is thought to be the most valuable for this purpose which leads from 
Coniston church through Yewdale and Tilberthwaite to Ambleside. The slate 
quarries in Tilberthwaite are well worth the attention of strangers.



{marginal = plate 4; Rothay Bridge}
No. 4.



ROTHAY BRIDGE, NEAR AMBLESIDE.



This bridge which spans the Rothay, is half a mile from Ambleside, on the 
road to Hawkshead, and Whitehaven, over the mountains Hardknot and Wrynose:
- and this view is made on the road from Kendal to Whitehaven, over the 
above mountains, and joins that from Ambleside at the foot of the 


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bridge. The Rydal fells, (the mountains here are generally called fells) 
beginning with Nab Scar, and ending with Fairfield, close the scene.



{marginal = plate 5; Ambleside}
No. 5.



AMBLESIDE FROM THE GALE.



Ambleside and Keswick are the places principally from which the English 
lakes, and the mountains and vallies lying around them, are visited.



The population of Keswick is, at least, double that of Ambleside, and the 
inns and lodging houses are proportionately numerous: there is likewise an 
activity and industry on the part of those whose business it is to shew, 
and to describe the surrounding country to strangers, which have been the 
means of rendering it more known, and consequently, as yet, more valued as 
a station, than Ambleside; but this value exists not in reality, for the

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beauties of Ambleside are numerous and highly interesting, as all will see 
who shall ascend to Skelgill; or visit Troutbeck, by the public road from 
Ambleside or Low Wood; Windermere; the vales of Great and Little Langdale; 
the various accesses to Loughrigg Fell, and tracing the lines upon that 
fell best calculated for the exhibition of its various panoramic scenes; 
the road from Rothay Bridge to Grasmere church, keeping the river and lakes
on the right hand; Stock Gill; Scandale Beck; Rydal: the water-falls and 
park at Rydal; Sweden Bridge by Scandale lane, returning on the opposite 
side of the stream, and over the bridge at Nookend to Ambleside; Wansfell 
Pike; Fairfield; and various other charming places in which this district 
so luxuriantly abounds.



Derwent water is a fine lake, and there are many grand, romantic, and 
beautiful scenes near Keswick; but


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'till Ambleside and Keswick shall be more equally and generally known, no 
popular decision can with propriety be given in favour of either the one or
the other place. The writer, not only for visual gratification, but for 
study, prefers Ambleside, after having with great attention examined both 
districts; and under the influence of this feeling, he settled himself at 
Ambleside.



The Gale is a field above that in which the fir trees stand as we enter on 
the Kendal road, the more embodied part of the village, and the most 
pleasant way of approaching this field on leaving the inns, is on the 
public road, by the fir trees and Gale house, entering the Gale field at 
the back of that house.



The scene in nature, from the Gale, comprehends more than half a circle, 
and the part which is here chosen, is looking towards the park and 
mountains of Rydal; the buildings nearest

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the eye are a part of the market-place; that over the end of the foot path 
is the Salutation inn - part of the exhibition-house appears between the 
fir trees - the ancient building in the centre of this view, belongs to Mr.
Edward Partridge, who resides in that part of it which is nearest the 
Salutation; and beyond this building appears Green Bank, the property of 
Matthew Harrison, Esq. and residence of the Misses Knott. Rydal hall and 
Rydal mount may be discovered beyond the fir trees.



{marginal = plate 6; Windermere lake}
No. 6.



WINDERMERE.



Windermere is the largest lake in England, being twelve miles long; about 
the head it is considerably more than a mile in breadth, and between the 
head and the islands which are about half way down the water, it is seldom 
less than


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a mile; but it narrows gradually from the islands to Newby bridge, which 
lies at the foot of the lake.



Windermere may be conveniently navigated from all the inns around it, there
being boats upon that lake belonging to the inns at Ambleside, Low Wood, 
Bowness, the ferry house, and Newby bridge. Ambleside is little more than 
half a mile from the head of the lake, and the other houses before spoken 
of, are all of them near it: the Ambleside boats are usually moored at a 
place called the landing, which is at the junction of the rivers 
<i>Rothay</i> and <i>Brathay</i>, not three quarters of a mile from the 
village. - Nothing can exceed, for beauty, the scenery between the landing 
and the head of the lake, and the wooded rocks which lie near the river's 
mouth combine with the Ambleside and Rydal mountains, so as to make 
excellent pictures - but the finest water view from the head of

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Windermere is about half a mile down the lake, having the boat at an equal 
distance from the eastern and the western shores. This is that anchorage, 
were it possible to anchor here, from which the mountains of Coniston, 
Little and Great Langdale, Loughrigg, Rydal, Ambleside, and Troutbeck, the 
high grounds of Applethwaite, Orrest, Bowness, and Cartmel fell, and the 
lands above Wray, as from one station on the water, are seen to the 
greatest advantage.



Brathay house and Old Brathay, the property of Henry Law, Esq. the former 
the residence of John Harden, Esq. and the latter of Charles Lloyd, Esq. 
are in Lancashire, and compose a part of the Langdale picture: the 
Westmorland houses beginning with Clappersgate cottage, Mrs. Freeman's, 
which with Croft lodge and its fine grounds, the property of Miss 
Pritchard, are situate under Loughrigg fell.


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Ambleside in a line with Scandale fell, exhibits various detached, and 
pleasantly planted houses, several of them built by Robert Partridge, Esq. 
and one of them, Covey Cottage, is his residence. Near the Kendal road and 
about two hundred yards from the head of the lake, stands a good house, the
property of William Newton, Esq. who resides there; and nearer the lake, 
the comfortable habitation of that respectable yeoman, Mr. Thomas Jackson.



Dove Nest, belonging to Mrs. Benson, but at present inhabited by Edward 
Pedder, Esq. who has greatly improved it, next claims our attention, and 
Low Wood which appears close to the water, is the last house in Ambleside. 
- Bowness is the last cluster of houses observed on this side the water; on
the Lancashire side are High and Low Kay.



Low Wood is a charming place for

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those who delight in boating, for the pier is not fifty yards from the 
house. This inn is something more than a mile and a half from Ambleside, 
and of course all worth attention in this (though not quite so 
conveniently) may be seen from Low Wood; and if that part of the lake about
the Great Island may be more frequently, and perhaps commodiously, 
navigated from the Ferry House, and from Bowness, than from Low Wood and 
Ambleside, yet during the season, parties are daily sailing from the latter
places to go round the Great Island, and to see the lake from the Station 
House. - An half day's ride usually taken by those who visit this country, 
is round the head of the lake and across the ferry; and may be performed, 
with equal convenience, from Ambleside, Hawkshead, the Ferry House, 
Bowness, and Low Wood.



Bowness is six or seven miles from


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Ambleside, and Windermere is beautiful from various high lands above 
Bowness, particularly from Brant fell, and the neighbourhood of Belman 
Ground. The ride from the foot of Windermere to Bowness is fine, and, if 
stationed at that place, it will be proper to cross the ferry and proceed 
by Graithwaite to Newby bridge, returning by Fellfoot, and Townhead; the 
traveller will thus have the best scenery before him on his return to his 
inn.



The Ferry House. - It is but justice in speaking of the situation of this 
inn, to say, that for delicate, soft, and reposed scenery, it will seldom 
be excelled; abrupt objects rarely strike the eye - all is stillness and 
harmony.



The Station House stands on a hill above the ferry, and was built by Mr. 
Brathwaite, from whom it was purchased by John Christian Curwen Esq. who 
likewise belongs to, and occasionally resides upon, the island. The

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Station commands an extensive and enchanting view of Windermere, and Curwen
Island is the grand leading feature to which the eye is involuntarily led. 
The house which has been built upon it, notwithstanding what some have 
said, will, in many unaffected people, appear well calculated as an 
ornament to the scene, and a suitable place of residence for the enjoyment 
of the local beauties of the island, the lake, and the surrounding scenery.



Comprehended under that angle of vision prescribed by the laws of 
perspective, all the principal islands with the well wooded Ferry House, 
are discovered in this view, and give an extraordinary richness to it; the 
lands on the opposite shores gracefully intersecting each other, and 
abundantly decorated with woods, are in unison with the islands. 
Cultivation is extended beyond the margin of the lake, high into Troutbeck 
and Applethwaite; and


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the scene is closed at many miles distant from the eye by grand mountains, 
the principal of which is Hillbell.



Near the banks of the lake, on the western shore, and to the left of the 
Great Island, comfortably situated, stands Calgarth, the seat of the Lord 
Bishop of Llandaff; and over the other end of the island, Brayrigg, that of
the Rev. Fletcher Fleming; Old Calgarth lies between these houses. Bowness 
with its church and the pleasantly dispersed houses belonging to Mr. Taylor
and Mr. Crump, appear beyond Crow Holm and the Ferry House. - South of 
Bowness, on a beautiful promontory, see Story, the property of Colonel 
Bolton, who has recently added a magnificent house to that built by the 
late Sir John Ledger, Bart. - should the grounds be appropriately 
decorated, the mansion, with its appendages, will be the most splendid on 
the banks of Windermere.

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The view down the lake, if not equal to that over the island, is, at least,
pleasing; it is featured with bays, several wooded promontories shooting 
far into the water; these are principally Stor's and Rawlinson's Nab.



There is a walk round the Great Island, which, much to the credit of Mr. 
Curwen, is free to the public; the pictures are numerous from this walk, 
and they are fine, especially when combined with wood, of which there is a 
profusion.



Some picturesque old oaks on the northern end of the island, give value to 
the Rydal, Ambleside, and Troutbeck distances, rendering them additionally 
aerial by the boldness of the contrast.



Boating in all directions from the Ferry House and Bowness is charming, but
the eye will, perhaps, be particularly gratified in the neighbourhood of


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Thompson's Holm, and the Lily of the Valley Holms.



This print of Windermere is from a field near the turnpike gate at 
Waterhead, and is looking into Langdale - Bow fell and Langdale pikes are 
the principal features in the distance, but a part of Loughrigg fell is on 
the right - the houses at Brathay and Clappersgate assist in composing the 
middle ground. - The trees on the left were taken from the hedge-row on the
right hand, with a view to benefit the composition - for though the 
distances on Windermere are exquisite, as seen in nature; yet, by their 
remoteness from the eye, and the consequent monotony of the lines composing
those distances, they generally require the aid of other objects with a 
view to destroy that monotony, and otherwise improve the intended picture.

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No. 7.



COTTAGE AT AMBLESIDE.



This place, which is called Kelsick Buildings, is occupied by several 
people, and is near the junction in Ambleside of the Kendal and Hawkshead 
roads.



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No. 8.



BARK MILL, AMBLESIDE.



The Mills in Ambleside are four, namely, a corn mill, a bark mill, a 
woollen factory, and a turnery of wood and ivory; they are all upon Stock 
Gill.



Stock Gill arises in the screes on the side of Scandale fell, not far from 
Kirkstone, and running west of the high, middle, and low groves, passes 
through Ambleside near the Salutation inn, and joins the Rothay a quarter 
of


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a mile below the town, and about four miles from its source.



The finest part of Stock Gill is comprehended between the woollen mill and 
Stock Gill Force, a distance of little more than half a mile, though on 
some parts of the stream above the force there are pretty spots not 
unworthy an artist's attention. At every step from the bridge to the 
waterfall, the river and its appendages exhibit either good compositions or
rich detached pieces for the embellishment of landscape; the materials are 
beautifully transparent, water rolling along the rocky bed of the river in 
every variety of shape; and often displaying to the eye the prettiest of 
waterfalls; the margin of the stream is sometimes low, but often steep and 
grassy banks, or bold projecting rocks, rise to a great height, and are 
luxuriantly cloathed with grand and picturesque trees, fern, moss, and 
various other vegetation.

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The bark mill is the property of Messrs. Sewart, Tanners, in Ambleside.



{marginal = plate 9; Ambleside mills}
No. 9.



MILLS IN AMBLESIDE.



The Bark Mill in the last print, composes likewise a part of the present, 
and the water which turns the wheel is conveyed in a spout from the corn 
mill, which is seen upon the opposite side of the river. - The corn mill 
adjoins the bridge, which is the only one in the town; the distant mountain
is Wansfell with its pike.



{marginal = plate 10; Stock Ghyll}
No. 10.



STOCK GILL NEAR THE SALUTATION INN.



This view is about 150 yards above the bridge; Stock Gill in this place is 
passable when the water is small in


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quantity, because the rocks point high out of the bed of the river: from 
the track discoverable between the eye and the house, there is a fine 
retrospective view to Wansfell; and the Salutation inn, with a peep at 
Windermere, are not uninteresting objects as we approach the chapel, which 
is the last building in the village, on the road to Penrith over Kirkstone.



{marginal = plate 11; Stock Ghyll}
No. 11.



STOCK GILL.



About half the way to Stock Gill Force, from Ambleside, is on the horse 
road to the groves, and the remainder of that way, after having crossed a 
field about one hundred yards over, is by the side of the brook; and the 
Stock Gill scene, here presented, is taken near that part of the path which
joins the brook.

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{marginal = plate 12; 'Cherry Tree'}
No. 12.



CHERRY TREE, STOCK GILL.



By some unaccountable mistake, the large tree in this print is called a 
cherry tree, but is in reality a species of wych elm. - The wych elm and 
the wild cherry tree grow luxuriantly and to a prodigious size on the banks
of this little river.



{marginal = plate 13; Stock Ghyll}
No. 13.



STOCK GILL, AMBLESIDE.



This view is about one hundred yards below the water-fall, and like the 
foregoing three, is down the stream.



{marginal = plate 14; Stock Ghyll}
No. 14.



STUDY IN STOCK GILL.



This study of rocks and trees was made thirty of forty yards below the foot
of the force.



The ramification of such trees as hang on the steep banks of rivers are 
usually wildly undulating, but straightness is the peculiar character of 
such as grow near the margins or out of the beds of rivers.



{marginal = plate 15; Stockghyll Force}
No. 15.



STOCK GILL FORCE.



The beauties of this admired water-fall are in a great degree lost to the 
generality of visitors, because they only see it from the foot-path, 
skirting the top of a bank which rises to a great height, and almost 
perpendicularly from the bottom of the channel; and the spectator looks 
down upon the scene, rather than upwards or horizontally; his view of the 
water is likewise considerably impeded by wood, of which there is a 
redundancy.



The finest views are from the bottom, and at some places a little above it;

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but few dare venture to the bottom, particularly those females whose 
pedestrian excursions have chiefly been upon the flat; nay, the masculine 
gender are often appalled with a view of the way, and many a swaggering 
gentleman of Bond Street, in his stable costume, would rather hazard his 
neck four-in-hand, than risk it having his arms precariously supported by 
the twigs and branches he may find in his way to the gulph below.



Several easy descents might be made at no considerable expense, which if 
well conducted, and the wood judiciously thinned, would give this 
water-fall, on a comparison with others, that high character it so justly 
deserves.



The master of the Salutation and the writer, have, years ago, decided on 
the existing necessity for such improvement, and determined, that while one
shall find ways the other shall furnish means; but it has thus far unfor-


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[unfor]tunately happened that the means have been so engaged with spades 
and ploughs, with halters and horse-whips, as to be unprovided with leisure
either to amend their old ways, or to make good new ones.



The falls are four; the stream being divided at the top, produces two upper
and two lower ones, and parts of all the four are seen from the foot-path 
just mentioned; on descending half way, the person arrives at the bottom of
the upper, and top of the lower fall nearest the side he stood upon.



The view before him is a pretty little picture: the water in a volume 
tumbles into a circular bason, from which it again falls over a shelving 
rock, giving it somewhat the appearance of an artificial fountain; trees 
project wildly from the encircling walls, which, additionally decorated 
with grasses, fern, moss, and other plants, give it, by

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their contrast in form and colour, a beautiful appearance.



The scene which has been engraved for this work, is made on the margin of 
the stream, immediately under the usual stand; but from several other 
points the materials will be found to combine with an equal, if not 
superior interest, should parts be preferred to a general view.



{marginal = plate 16; Pelter Bridge}
No. 16.



PELTER BRIDGE, RYDAL.



This bridge is a mile from Ambleside, the fore-ground on the left is 
brought from the other side of the bridge, the drawing being made out of a 
flat field on the Loughrigg side of the river Rothay - the houses are the 
beginning of the little village of Rydal, on the road from Ambleside to 
Keswick.



The mountain over the lesser arch of the bridge is Nab Scar, from a certain
point of which there is, to a great extent of distance, an exquisite and 
almost circular view of the country, which is composed of mountains, lakes,
rivers, woods, and buildings; and this view, in its kind, is perhaps more 
interesting than can be furnished by the domains of Rydal from any other 
summit.



{marginal = plate 17; Rydal}
No. 17.



COTTAGE AT RYDAL.



Part of the building here presented is given in the preceeding print, and 
this view is higher on the river than the bridge, from which it is not one 
hundred yards; the townships of Rydal and Ambleside divide on the top of 
the mountain, the pointed summits of which are the high and low pikes. 
Though this and the former view are

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of scenes in Rydal, yet they are made from the township of Loughrigg.



The whole township of Rydal is calculated by nature for producing effects 
in the highest degree beautiful and picturesque; the middle and lower 
grounds are composed of elegantly undulating surfaces, which, if properly 
attended to, might render its whole and its parts, probably, at least, 
equal to any thing of the kind to be met with elsewhere.



The park commences near the hall, and advancing considerably up the hill 
towards the pikes, commands noble prospects of the lakes of Rydal and 
Windermere, which, aided even by the trees still standing, render it a most
desirable place for those who delight in contemplating the beauties of 
nature. Some fine trees still remain, but the writer has, with great 
regret, been witness to the despoiling of some rich and heavenly 
compositions by an im-


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[im]proper application of the axe; improper as applied to the feelings of 
the picturesque observer, but not as a means of enriching the proprietor, 
and of contributing towards the comforts of the public at large.



Mr. Landseer, in the New London Review, has given a most scientific and 
detailed account of seventy-eight studies from nature, published by the 
writer in 1809; and though the examination is creditable to him, yet as 
that thinking observer, Mr. Landseer, has expressed his surprise that the 
writer, after having called the vale of Grasmere beautiful, should advise 
the proprietors to improve it by attending to their trees, he thinks it 
necessary in the present place to make some observations on that subject.



It does not appear that the landed proprietors among these mountains feel a
necessity for improvements of this sort, by the havoc that is from time to

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time displayed in the felling of their woods and coppices, and with a view 
to beneft those proprietors, he has advised them to propogate trees of 
various sorts, and in such places as are likely to produce ultimately the 
greatest quantity of benefit and beauty; to encourage all favourites, 
particularly those in interesting situations, by that kind of attention 
that will produce a rapid growth; to leave on every estate at least as many
trees as acres that are tolerably advanced towards a state of maturity, 
always taking care to have a succession of younger plants, that they may be
enabled to enrich themselves while they are annually adding to the 
celebrity of their possessions; thus ensuring utility and beauty to go hand
in hand; for every man knows, at least every man of taste knows, that in 
all frequented vallies, particularly such as are not only environed by high
mountains, but the bot-


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[bot]toms of which are of uneven surfaces, that land will sell for most 
money which is the most beautifully wooded.



Grasmere is beautiful, but infintely less so than it would be if graced by 
groups and single forest trees of a large growth, not only in the vallies 
but on the sides of the mountains. - Grasmere is beautiful, but that beauty
depends, however extraordinary it may appear, on the multitude of its land 
owners, for were Grasmere the property of one person, he might exterminate 
the wood in a spring; but fifty men are seldom in one humour, and the 
beauty of Grasmere, as far as depends on its woods, is the effect of 
accident, not of design.



But chance can never do more than intention, unless that intention be under
the influence of a false taste; the genius of this country imperiously 
demands a true taste, or no taste a tall (sic),

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in which case every farm within twenty miles of Langdale pikes should have 
a different landlord.



True taste does not, in conspicuous places exhibit large plantations or 
lumps of evergreen, in circles, in squares, in parallelograms, or in any 
other mathematical figure, nor often in rows. Ancient evergreens are, 
however, sublime objects; but as every thing is young before it is old, in 
order to obtain this sublimity, care must be taken by every possible means 
first to procure beauty; for which purpose, amongst other necessary 
attention, it will be proper, by occasionally thinning, to keep the heads 
of such youthful plants asunder; for the purse and the eye will suffer much
where this, as a principle, has not been attended to.



Many evergreens in one group seldom appear to advantage; nor do they 
associate well in plantations with deciduous trees; for which reason they


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should be obscured by other trees, in places where their growth is 
considered necessary for the well being of the neighbouring community.



Occasionally appearing on the summits, or on the sides of knolls, aged 
evergreens, if well distributed, have a good effect; they are likewise 
grand accompaniments to halls or farm houses of the ancient Westmorland 
construction; and, of deciduous trees, the sycamore is their best companion
in such situations.



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It is not intended here to speak at large of the trees best suited to the 
genius of the mountains, nor of that mode of combination by which the 
landed proprietors may ultimately aggrandize their families; that has been 
attempted before in the work before spoken of; but it may not be improper 
now to offer a few general remarks to such as have large estates, and have 
no disinclination to improve them.

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Coppice wood is usually cut down in this country every fourteen or sixteen 
years, for the uses of coaling, fuel, hoop making, bobbin turning, and for 
various husbandry and other purposes; and it is, in a general way, 
performed indiscriminately - some owners, however, suffer oaks, and 
sometimes ash trees, to remain, but it is mostly in such a way that the new
shoots can derive little advantage from them as shelter.



Property is not injured but rather enhanced in value by suffering out of 
coppice wood a considerable proportion of trees to remain, particularly if 
they are such as are grown from plants, are beautiful, sound at the roots, 
and otherwise healthy; oak, ash, and birch, are the best adapted to answer 
this purpose; and they are trees which will always be admired as long as 
there is any feeling for that diversity of character so bountifully 
distributed


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over the face of nature. - Large trees shelter small ones, and greatly 
promote their growth, if lying on the east and north; and the business of 
the owner, previous to the application of the axe, will be at once to 
consult his immediate and future interest by the preservation of such trees
as will, by a proper attention to their species and combination, render to 
the place charms unknown before, and advantage to the future growth of the 
wood after the business of felling has been performed.



In the smaller work, notice has been taken of several estates bordering 
Derwent Water, and of certain benefits to be derived from a reduction of 
the wood on those estates, and the writer will avail himself of the present
opportunity to speak of the way in which he conceives the lower grounds at 
Rydal might be improved. Should his advice be attended to, he trusts that 
the result will eventually

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produce riches to the proprietors, and a splendour of beauty to the place 
few would calculate upon. In offering these opinions, he is influenced by 
two motives, the first, gratitude for the liberty allowed him of studying 
in the park, where he has alone, and in company with other privileged 
individuals, spent many happy days in contemplation of scenes, which, in 
their kind, he has never seen equaled; the second, that of gratifying 
public taste by the proposed improvements.



The writer will here confine himself to the lower grounds in that part of 
Rydal which lie to the east of the Rothay, and the little river proceeding 
from the water-falls.



Scandale bridge is a quarter of a mile from Ambleside on the Keswick road, 
and the feelings of many are oppressed with gloom, till they are relieved, 
half a mile beyond that bridge, by a sight of Rydal hall, the first view


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of which is fine; but the traveller not having considered the subject, is 
seldom able to discover why he dislikes this half mile.



In viewing the external surface of nature, man is generally more pleased 
with her spontaneous productions than with the works of art upon that 
surface, and well he may be, when art so frequently tends to disfigure the 
fair face of nature - but it is not meant that in the district here spoken 
of, art, as intending to mould nature into beauty, was ever thought of.



Utility has been the main designer here, and has divided an extensive 
district into various large inclosures, some of which have been uniformly 
covered with wood, and it has exclusively appropriated the rest to the 
purposes of agriculture, save where here and there clumps of firs have been
planted, but generally so near together

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as to be prevented from ever rising into grandeur.



A thick wood, which has been undisturbed for a long time, is uniformly a 
repetition of the surface on which it stands, and is more unpleasant to the
eye than were its produce grass rather then trees; but such woods 
interrupted alternately by bare fields are uniformly heavy and disgusting.



The cultivated eye requires variety, and will not allow of monotonous 
repetition, which here, though so generally displayed, would, by the 
moderate labour of two springs, be entirely destroyed, and so modified as 
to appear like another country; for the materials for this purpose are 
chiefly on the spot.



It seems that at some time a road has been intended from Scandale bridge to
the hall, chiefly the breadth of a field to the east of the turnpike road; 
this is a charming track, as it opens finely on the mountains; there is 
here


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to the left, likewise, more of distribution in the trees than from the 
public road.



Preparatory to the use of the axe, the woods must be carefully examined in 
order to discover all such trees as, by their stateliness, elegance, or 
beauty, may eventually give grace to the scenery; and these trees must be 
so marked as to be distinguished from those which are intended to be cut 
down. The most interesting points upon the roads and on the land must then 
be ascertained, by moving in all directions till the objects between the 
eye and the distance compose in the best order; and as the trees in many 
situations may obscure various valuable matter, those trees must be marked,
as necessary to be removed.



In the woods at Rydal, amongst the deciduous trees there are evergreens of 
different sorts, but chiefly of the fir tribe; but the number of those 
ever-

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[ever]greens is proportionably small, and they are generally so situated 
that first being cleared to some distance of the annually leafing trees, 
and afterwards tastefully reduced in their numbers, they would become 
objects of great interest from all parts of the valley; for dark firs ought
never to be exhibited in immediate contrast with other trees, particularly 
such as are occasionally of brilliant tints; those in the fields ought 
likewise to be thinned; and, where practicable, the removed trees 
transplanted to a little distance, and in such a way as to produce a 
picturesque irregularity.



Among many points of view, some one will be better than the rest; and this 
point, particularly if from a road, is the first to be attended to: the 
genius of every other point must likewise be consulted, and openings made 
in the woods from each of them, so as to produce the finest pictures the 
nature


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of the materials will allow of; always attentively considering in thinning 
for one station how the rest will be affected by such thinning. Those trees
which have been marked for their stateliness, elegance, or beauty, must, 
however, for the present, remain untouched till all the rest have been 
removed, and the adjoining lands decorated by transplanting from the woods 
the most beautiful and the largest trees that are likely to grow from such 
transplanting.



All the new associations on the outsides of the woods must be of various 
sorts of trees; several of the same kind ought, notwithstanding, to be 
massed as the principals of the groups in which they stand; these groups 
must likewise be of many different sizes, and so placed as to add a grace 
and dignity to what had previously been performed.



The business of cutting and of transplanting being done, it will exhibit 
not

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only all heretofore hidden beauties, but the most consistent arrangement of
the removed trees with those remaining in the woods; and this will be the 
business of the first season, and must be executed at that period of the 
winter which will answer best the double purpose of transplanting those 
trees, and of disposing of such as are to be cut down.



The ensuing summer will shew the result of what has already been attempted,
and of what will be proper to be done the following winter; for which 
purpose the ground must be re-surveyed, and as many of those stately, 
elegant, and beautiful trees first marked, must be cut down at the proper 
season, as by their removal will give additional beauty to the whole, and 
to the parts taken individually.



All the transplanted trees must be such as have grown in a proper depth of 
soil. Notwithstanding every care


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in their removal some of them may die, in which case they must be succeeded
either by others of the same sort, or by plants taken from the nursery.



After cutting, it would be best, particularly where many trees have been 
removed, to pluck up the remaining stub or tree roots, and plant the whole 
of that part afresh; and amongst other sorts of trees, with oak, ash, 
birch, larch, sycamore, and black Italian poplar - but should this mode be 
generally thought too expensive, it cannot be amiss to examine the roots, 
and after having removed the unsound ones, to substitute nursery plants in 
their places.



In prominent situations, grassy banks between groups of trees have a fine 
effect, and must occasionally be displayed by an eradication of the stub, 
and wherever it is possible to introduce large surfaces of rock, 
particularly if it can be combined with wood, this

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must be done, but with all due attention to the nature of the subject.



The writer is anxious that what he has here offered, should not be 
considered as an impertinent intrusion of opinion; he sincerely declares 
that, excepting the one before spoken of, he has no end to answer by it but
the introduction of a better taste. What he has said about Rydal, will 
apply with equal propriety to other parts of the country; and it would be a
considerable addition to his pleasures, if by his written or verbal 
observations he could, in any degree, be the means of instilling into 
gentlemen, yeoman, or stewards, that feeling by which they might render 
their properties more vaulable, and the face of this charming country 
infinitely more pleasing.



{marginal = plate 18; Low Fall, Rydal}
No. 18.



LOWER FALL AT RYDAL.



Highly to the credit of the Rydal family, who have given to the public a 
sight of the falls, excellent foot-paths have been made to them from the 
road: this view is from a summer-house which is near the hall, and is a 
scene as complete in its kind as any in the country. - What Mr. Gilpin has 
excellently said of this fall, will be more properly applied to it as 
observed from a bank a few yards above the summer-house than from it. - 
"The water falls within a few yards of the eye, <i>which being rather above
its level</i>, has a long perspective view of the stream, as it hurries 
from the higher grounds, tumbling in various little breaks through its 
rocky channel, darkened with thicket, till it arrives at the edge of the 
precipice before the window, from

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whence it rushes into the bason, which is formed by nature in the native 
rock."



{marginal = plate 19; Rydal Hall}
No. 19.



SCENE NEAR RYDAL HALL.



This view is on the river between the lower fall and the wooden bridge, 
passed on the way to the upper fall; and perhaps such a scene as Shakespear
had in his "mind's eye," when he composed Jacques description of the 
bankrupt deer, in "As you like it."



{marginal = plate 20; Windermere lake; oak trees}
No. 20.



WINDERMERE, FROM RYDAL PARK.



We look towards the foot of Windermere from Rydal park, which, though a 
flat scene, is beautiful; but distances like the present are not calculated
to please in outline. This view is given rather as an exhibition of the oak
trees, than of the lake; but the


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combination has, however, in nature, a fine effect.



{marginal = plate 21; Rydal Water}
No. 21.



RYDAL WATER, FROM RYDAL PARK.



This view is taken near the south-west corner of the park: Beyond the lake 
appears the road to Keswick, at about two miles and a half from Ambleside; 
before the road reaches the third mile, there is a fine view of the lake 
and vale of Grasmere; Langdale pikes and Bow Fell are the remote objects in
the scene, which scene, in nature, under some circumstances of effect, is 
of extraordinary beauty.



{marginal = plate 22; oak tree; Rydal Park}
No. 22.



OAK, IN RYDAL PARK.



This picturesque stump is amongst the highest oaks in the park, and till 
lately, in the neighbourhood of several

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others, which were good subjects for the pencil.



{marginal = plate 23; Rydal Park}
No. 23.



SCENE IN RYDAL PARK.



These oaks are near that last spoken of, and are given as an example of 
bold foreshortening; the distance between the trees is Nab Scar, north of 
which the line of mountains stretches nearly to Fairfield.



{marginal = plate 24; Loughrigg}
No. 24.



ROCKS ON LOUGHRIGG SIDE.



Part of Loughrigg Fell skirts the western side of Rydal Water, and from its
surface are many rocky projections; the study presented is about half way 
up the hill, from the side of the lake.



{marginal = plate 25; Goody Bridge}
No. 25.



GOODY BRIDGE, IN GRASMERE.



The buildings in this scene are called by the name of a stone bridge which 
is lower down the river, and on the way to Easedale from Grasmere church: 
to improve the composition, the stepping stones have been brought nearer to
the houses than they actually are: the distance is Helme Crag, but the 
rocks on its summit, called the Lion and the Lamb, cannot be seen from this
place.



Easedale is an arm of the vale of Grasmere, well wooded and charmingly 
sequestered among the mountains.



{marginal = plate 26; Bramerigg Gill}
No. 26.



BRAMERIGG GILL.



About four miles and three quarters from Ambleside, on the Keswick road, 
stands a smithy, and near to it a bridge,

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which is over Bramerigg Gill, and this wild dingle is a few hundred yards 
above the bridge; the stream has its source between Fairfield and Seat 
Sandal, from which it rapidly descends into Grasmere.



{marginal = plate 27; St John's in the Vale}
No. 27.



ST. JOHN'S VALE.



This much admired valley opens itself on the eye of the spectator about ten
miles from Ambleside, on his approach to Keswick; and this view of it, is 
from a field on the right of the mile stone, and chosen because the 
mountains compose better than from the crags on the opposite side of the 
road; but the traveller ought to have his view from amongst these crags, as
the picture is thereby excellently benefited by them as a fore-ground; the 
stony part of which was added to the distance here presented.



The rock of St. John, which rises above Legberthwaite mill, and beyond that
rock Wanthwaite Crags, bound the valley on the right, and the How and 
Naddle Fell on the opposite side; in a fine line see Saddleback end the 
perspective.



Thrilmere (sic) with good accompaniments, may be seen from the left hand 
station, to which there is easy access, a stile being left in the wall, 
probably for the accommodation of the picturesque observer.



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No. 28.



HELVELLYN, FROM THE FOOT OF LEATH'S WATER.



Wyburn Water, Thril Mere, or Leath's Water, has its latter name from the 
family of Leath, who have long resided at Dalehead, a venerable edifice on 
the banks of the lake.



This view is from a part of the road

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immediately west of the foot of the lake, and Helvellyn, as seen from it, 
is of a more interesting figure than is displayed by it from other 
situations; its neighbouring summits being high, leave generally but little
of the mountain to the view of the spectator, particularly from Coniston 
Water, Windermere, and Ulls Water.



The woods on the opposite banks of the lake are the property of John 
Stanger Leath, Esq. and his house is seen amongst them. - Between these 
woods and the high mountains, winds the road from Keswick to Ambleside; and
the mile-stone six and ten is not far distant from the house, and 
immediately beyond it from the eye.



The beauties of Wyburn Water are all seen from the western side. Mrs. 
Radcliffe, like others who have written upon it, seems not to have deviated
from the turnpike road, for she says, "This is a long but narrow and un-


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[un]adorned lake, having little else than walls or rocky fells starting 
from its margin." - It is to be regretted that Mrs. Radcliffe did not 
traverse the other side, for had she done so, the public would doubtless 
have been much gratified by her elegant description of the scene before 
her.



Wyburn Water may be visited from Ambleside or Keswick, or from the inn at 
Wyburn, which is not a mile from the head of the lake; but those who would 
avail themselves of all its beauties, must go round it.



The western side of the lake is to be travelled only on foot or on 
horse-back, the roads being sometiimes steep, but oftener rugged: the road 
from Keswick over the bridges which cut the lake in two, is about thirteen 
miles; that round the head of the lake about sixteen. - From Ambleside 
round the foot of the lake is upwards of twenty-

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[twenty-]four miles, but over the bridges about twenty.



Between the head of the lake and Armbath, the property and residence of Mr.
Jackson, is a fine view of the upper and lower waters, elegantly adorned on
their margins with woods, and screened on the sides by the How and Raven 
Crag; Naddle Fell over the foot of the lake is succeeded by Saddleback.



On the road from Armbath to Raven Crag, the scenery is occasionally very 
fine, particularly looking on Helvellyn; and Raven Crag, from the point of 
a bold promontory, is a sublime object: About the outlet of the lake are 
many picturesque birch trees, and in all directions the distances from them
are not uninteresting: The margin of the lake on the Dalehead side has its 
charms of wood and water; and Fisher Crag, twin brother to Raven Crag, is


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no bad object, when taken near the island called Bucks Holm.



{marginal = plate 29; Legburthwaite Mill}
No. 29.



MILL IN LEGBERTHWAITE.



Legberthwaite and St. John are the same valley.



Legberthwaite mill is twelve miles from Ambleside, on the road from that 
place to Threlkeld, which lies under Saddleback; the Threlkeld and Keswick 
roads dividing about the eleventh mile stone; the grand surface of rock 
above the mill, is called the rock of St. John.



{marginal = plate 30; Derwent Water}
No. 30.



DERWENT WATER, FROM CASTLERIGG.



Derwent Water, as has been before observed, is a fine lake, and its 
beauties will be obvious to all who may

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ride round it, or see the circumjacent country from the water, or go to 
Castlerigg, which is a divine situation; for whether we look towards 
Borrowdale or Newlands, Bassenthwaite or Skiddaw, from Castlerigg, the eye 
will not fail of being abundantly gratified.



Castlerigg is a mile from Keswick, and about two hundred yards west of the 
first mile stone on the Ambleside road, and this view is from a field north
of the houses, and looking towards the mountains of Borrowdale and 
Wastdale, of which Great Gable and Great-End are the most remote from the 
eye; the woods about the village of Grange are seen at the head of the 
lake, and over them Gate Crag, which is succeeded by a mountain that 
stretches itself north towards Cat Bells; Wallow Crag, richly dressed in 
wood, screens the valley on the east.



{marginal = plate 31; islands, Derwent Water}
No. 31.



THE ISLANDS ON DERWENT WATER.



The site of the present scene is near that of the last, but looking towards
the mountains of Newlands and Braithwaite, and this view comprehends the 
three large islands.



Lord's Island is beyond the trees, and on the other side of the lake see 
Water-end bay, at the extremity of which stands that tasteful building 
erected by Lord William Gordon, for his occasional residence; all the lands
bounding that side of the lake observed here belong to his lordship. - 
Vicars Island, late Pocklington's Island, now the property of Colonel 
Pech&eacute;, from this place apparently in contact with the mainland, is 
on the right, and St. Herbert's on the left. The mountains Swinside, 
Barrow, and Grisdale, with its pike, are seen over Vicar's Island;

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and at the St. Herbert's end of this scene, the two Cat Bells, and beyond 
them Hindsgarth in Newlands - the centre is occupied by Causey Pike, and 
the more distant mountain Grasmire, which mountain is the eastern boundary 
of Crummock Water.



{marginal = plate 32; Derwent Water}
No. 32.



DERWENT WATER, FROM CROW PARK.



Crow Park was, within the recollection of some people, covered with ancient
oaks; now there are none.



Depredations of this sort are perpetually making upon the domains of taste;
sometimes by the rich, and sometimes by their agents, in complete ignorance
of the intrinsic value of such property. - Inclosed groups of trees planted
in proper situations would restore the beauties of which this country has 
been thoughtlessly deprived; and the sons and daughters


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of the present generation would reap the benefits of such an improvement.



The end of all human pursuits is to procure to every individual the 
greatest quantity of that kind of happiness he is capable of enjoying: men 
with minds devoid of cultivation, frequently place their affections 
exclusively on the accumulation of wealth, and are seldom inclined so to 
educate their children as to render them capable of rationally enjoying 
that wealth when it devolves to them. In the opinion of such men, there is 
no security for the preservation of their property, but in their children 
being trained in the industrious habits of their fathers, and thus is 
insensibility to the objects of taste perpetuated.



Where refinement with honourable feeling and riches unite, every thing may 
be expected. A human being thus advantageously gifted, whatever may be his 
peculiar pursuit in life, will

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always be influenced by a disposition to contribute to the perfection of 
that taste which he knows is the last and highest ornament of the temple of
talents and virtue.



The view from Crow Park is into Borrowdale.



Vicar's Island is a principal feature of the middle distance, and it is to 
be reached by boats from the pier on the opposite shore; in the 
neighbourhood of which pier are moored various small craft for the 
navigation of the lake; the rocks of Lowdore, with its water-fall, are over
the boat-house, and to the left, the mountains of Watenlath. Beyond Vicar's
Island, and over the middle of the lake see Grange Fell, Grange Crag, 
Castle Crag, and Gate Crag; the mountains beyond Rosthwaite terminate the 
distance, of which Rosthwaite Pike and Great End are the most considerable.



{marginal = plate 33; Derwent Water}
No. 33.



DERWENT WATER, FROM ISTHMUS.



That point of the projecting shore of Derwent Water called Isthmus, lies 
north of Vicar's Island, and is covered with trees, of which some are oaks 
of a respectable growth.



Vicar's Island appears on the right, and in the middle of the subject, 
edging the lake, see Friar Crag - the distance is Wallow Crag and various 
large rocks above Barrow Common.



{marginal = plate 34; Falcon Crag}
No. 34.



FALCON CRAG, ON DERWENT WATER.



This view of the magnificent rocks which rise above Barrow Common, is taken
from the point of land which stretches itself into the lake near Barrow 
Hall - figures passing along the

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road over the common, will serve as a scale by which the spectator may 
judge of the magnitude of the scene before him.



{marginal = plate 35; Skiddaw}
No. 35.



SKIDDAW, TAKEN NEAR LOWDORE.



Derwent Water with Skiddaw, as here presented is from a field which joins 
the road, and is on the east of the stream proceeding from the water-fall.



Vicar's Island, Ramp's Holm, and Lord's Island are succeeded by various 
enclosures skirting the base of Skiddaw; the point of land from which the 
last scene was taken is observable by its projection into the lake - Falcon
Crag towers grandly on the right; the oak and ash trees were added from the
road.



{marginal = plate 36; Barrow Cascade}
No. 36.



BARROW CASCADE.



Barrow Cascade lies at the back of Barrow House, which is the property of 
Joseph Pocklington, Esq.; Barrow House commands a fine view of Skiddaw, 
with Derwent Water.



In every cascade there is a particular quantity of water which is more 
pleasant to the eye than any other quantity; and those who may view the one
at Barrow under favourable circumstances, will, it is trusted, be highly 
gratified, and be ready to pronounce it the most charming picture, of its 
kind, among the mountains. The course of the water has been diverted from 
its original channel by Mr. Pocklington, who had previously excavated the 
rock, and who has given the whole to the public eye in its present beauty. 
There are four places between the

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bottom and top of the fall from which it may be seen, the access to which 
is easy: the view here given is from the second of these stations.



A little building near the top of the fall, in which there are seats, 
commands a splendid view of Derwent Water over the tops of the trees.



{marginal = guide book}
It was intended originally to describe the scenes given here, locally, 
though with some reference to the most prominent features in their 
immediate vicinity, but the dull monotony of such descriptions rendered it 
necessary to connect the subjects by a chain; but out of this mode of 
description has arisen something of the guide kind, and the writer, knowing
the country better than the guide makers who have written upon it, thinks 
that travellers will gain some advantages by the perusal of this little 
book; and his intention thus to serve them must be his apology


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for selling it either separately or with the prints.



Now, though none of the present publication of outlines are scenes on Haws 
Water, Bassenthwaite Water, Buttermere, Crummock Water, Lows Water, or 
Ennerdale Water, the writer thinks that, as a guide, the thing will not be 
complete without something be said on the avenues to those lakes.



{marginal = Buttermere; Crummock Water}
The horse-road to Buttermere is through the vale of Newlands, but the 
carriage-road is part of the way on the Cockermouth road over Whinlatter, 
and through a part of the vale of Lorton, by Crummock Water to the inn at 
Buttermere. - The inn at Scale Hill, (which is about half a mile from the 
outlet of Crummock Water) and the inn at Buttermere, are both of them 
excellent stationary places; from which, to see Buttermere, Crummock Water,
Lows Water,and Ennerdale Water. The inn at Buttermere lies at about an

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equal distance from the two lakes of Buttermere and Crummock; and the 
mountains round the valley rise in precipitous grandeur, to a great height.
Honister Crag, at the Borrowdale end of the valley, is a steep high rock, 
from the side of which is got an abundance of slate. - The four conical 
topped mountains, High Pike, High Steel, High Crag, and Red Pike, are on 
the western side of the lake of Buttermere, and Robinson on the eastern - 
the river connecting Buttermere and Crummock Waters, runs at the feet of 
the western mountains, and is about half a mile long - the inn is at the 
bottom of the Keswick road, on the east side of the vale, and the immediate
grounds are of sweet pasturage, with woods elegantly sprinkled over it - 
Melbreak skirts the eastern, and Rannerdale Knott, Grasmire and Whiteside, 
the western side of Crummock Water.



{marginal = Loweswater lake}
Lows Water is the smallest of the three lakes, and must be gone round by 
such as have time and can conveniently walk three or four miles: there is a
pretty sylvan scene between the lake and the eye, from the edge of the 
common under Melbreak - the hills on the east, west, and north sides, rise 
gently from the water. The low grounds are pleasantly ornamented with 
meadows, out of which groups of wood and single trees, alone and in the 
hedge-rows. - Melbreak, Whiteside, Grasmire, Rannerdale Knott, and Honister
Crag, are fine objects, when seen from the head of Lows Water. - The foot 
of Lows Water is about a mile from the foot of Crummock Water, and not a 
mile from the inn at Scale Hill.



There is a road round Crummock Water, but under Melbreak only for horses 
and foot people; Scale Force is a considerable water-fall, in a cleft of

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the hill between Melbreak and Red Pike, it is about half a mile from the 
head of Crummock Water; and those who take the Scale Hill boat, or go round
the lake, will enjoy a fine view of the two lakes of Crummock and 
Buttermere from the side of Melbreak, about two or three hundred yards 
above a little rocky promontory called Ling Crag. - Crummock Water must be 
likewise attended to from the high grounds between the outlets of the two 
lakes, and from the road and the lake on the western side, the Buttermere 
mountains are in fine combination. The views of the valley will likewise 
give satisfaction, when seen from Rannerdale Knott, a little higher than 
the top of the old road over it - the new road on the side of this hill 
does credit to the projectors of it, and renders the access to Buttermere, 
from Keswick, much easier for carriages than it was formerly.



{marginal = Ennerdale Water}
Ennerdale Water may be taken by foot or horsemen from the inn at 
Buttermere, by keeping the road down the meadows, and passing Scale Force 
on the left to a little lake called Fluttering Tarn, which must likewise be
kept on the left: This road, though of considerable ascent, is not over the
highest part of the mountain; and after having gained the Tarn, the 
traveller will, from the north-east, presently see Ennerdale Water, which 
is, by many, thought to be an interesting lake - from the inn at Scale Hill
the carriage road lies on the eastern side of Lows Water through Lampleugh;
but the horse and foot road is between Crummock and Lows Water; afterwards 
skirt Melbreak, which keep on the left for some time, and turn up the side 
of the hill to the right to Fluttering Tarn, before spoken of.



The best views of the lake are about one mile east of the foot; this is 
inclosed ground, and the grouped and

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single trees are picturesque, and associate well in composition with the 
distances: Bonus Knot, a mountain mass of rugged rock, is the side screen 
on the left, but this is contrasted by the western boundary, which, 
excepting at Anglingstone, is something smooth and uniform in its height 
all the way up the side of the lake: Among the mountains at the head of the
water, are the Pillar and the Steeple.



{marginal = Bassenthwaite Lake}
There is a carriage road from Keswick round Bassenthwaite Water, and it is 
not of much importance which side of the lake is first travelled; the 
Bassenthwaite side of the road is between Skiddaw and the lake, and cannot 
be mistaken; and either looking forward or backward the scenes are good, 
though not so great as those in some other parts of the country. The 
borders of the lake abound in rich inclosures, scattered over with a 
luxuriance of trees. - Withop woods


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mass in a firm and grand manner as seen from this side of the water; the 
road passes by Bassenthwaite Halls, a few houses so called, to Ouse Bridge 
between Armathwaite Hall, the seat of Sir Fredrick Vane, Bart. and the 
lake. - Ouse Bridge is over the river Derwent, and at the foot of the lake.
From Armathwaite hall, the view down the lake is exquisite in its kind, but
Helvellyn, by being removed ten miles from the eye, is not remarkable in 
its features as one of the component parts of this picture. - From Ouse 
Bridge, the road is by Peterhow, a rock covered with woods, to the margin 
of the lake on the western side; and Skiddaw is a fine object for a few 
miles, though exhibiting a very different face from that assumed on Derwent
Water: Dodd, sometimes called Skiddaw's Cub, with the low-lands at the head
of the water out-distanced by the mountains of St. John's, make a good 
picture from the

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side of the lake under Withop Woods: - return to Keswick, after leaving the
lake, by Brathwaite and Portinscale.



{marginal = plate 37; Stonycroft Bridge}
No. 37.



STONYCROFT BRIDGE.



Accident has given to the vale of Newlands, a peculiar beauty in the 
arrangement of its trees, for they belong to many people; and it is further
highly interesting from the grand mountains which surround it.



Stonycroft Bridge, in the vale of Newlands, is four miles from Keswick, on 
the horse-road to Buttermere - the smeltery lately erected by W. E. 
Sheffield, Esq. is on this stream, having Rollingend on the left, and 
Barrow on the right, and is something more than a quarter of a mile above 
the bridge: Causey Pike closes this scene.



{marginal = plate 38; Low Snab}
No. 38.



LOW SNAB, IN NEWLANDS,



Is the last house in that part of the valley which branches towards 
Dalehead, a mountain seen in the middle of this view.



{marginal = plate 39; Grange, Borrowdale}
No. 39.



GRANGE, IN BORROWDALE.



All the way from Castlerigg to Bowder Stone is richly replete with 
fore-ground studies, which will readily be discovered by such as give 
themselves the trouble to scramble up the sides of the mountains.



The present foreground is taken from the side of Grange Fell, and the 
village and mountain beyond it were introduced from the same point, after 
having turned at right angles.



The village of Grange is four miles

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from Keswick, and tourists pass through Grange in their progress round the 
lake.



{marginal = plate 40; road, Borrowdale and Buttermere}
No. 40.



ROAD BETWEEN GRANGE AND BOWDER STONE.



This part of the road from Keswick to Bowder Stone, is about a quarter of a
mile from the bridge; the distance is a part of Grange Fell.



{marginal = plate 41; Borrowdale}
No. 41.



BORROWDALE NEAR BOWDER STONE.



Bowder Stone is two or three hundred yards nearer Rosthwaite than the place
from which this view is taken; but, like the village of Rosthwaite, it 
cannot be seen from this station, being hid from the eye by the rocky 
foreground on the left.



Rosthwaite, which is six miles from


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Keswick, is the centre of a three grained valley (as it is termed in the 
north), and the roads to Rosthwaite from Langdale and Wastdale run through 
two of these grains on the banks of streams, which, uniting below the 
village, form the river Derwent; the Derwent, winding through the rocky 
channel of the third grain, empties itself into the lake a mile below 
Grange.



Borrowdale, from the summit of a green hill near Rosthwaite, exhibits an 
extraordinary mixture of sublimity and beauty; the surrounding mountains 
being high, finely formed, and luxuriantly dressed in wood, from amongst 
which rocks often appearing, give to the whole an additional interest.



In the middle distance of the view before us, on the right, rises from the 
river Derwent, Castle Crag, but here we do not see its summit; Rosthwaite 
Pike and Glenamatara, majestically

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towering from the valley, close the scene.



{marginal = Bowder Stone}
No. 42.



BOWDER STONE.



Mr. Pocklington, who is now the proprietor of Bowder Stone, has pulled down
the walls with which it was heretofore encumbered, and thereby rendered it 
an excellent painter's study.



Bowder Stone is five miles from Keswick, on the road to Rosthwaite.



{marginal = Folly Bridge}
No. 43.



FOLLY BRIDGE, IN BORROWDALE.



The source of the river passing under this bridge is in Sprinkling Tarn, 
which, decending the mountain Sprinkling, unites itself with Sty Head Tarn;
and having reached the valley, winds between the village of Seathwaite and


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the Black Lead Mines, to Folly Bridge, which is half a mile from 
Rosthwaite.



On a stone erected near this bridge, is engraved,



"I count it folly you have done,
As you have neither wife nor son."



to which, by way of answer, the following lines are added:



"Daughter I have, God give her grace,
And heaven be her seating place."



{marginal = Coom Gill; birch trees}
No. 44.



BIRCH TREES, IN COOM GILL.



Coom Gill is engulphed in fantastic scenery; a water spout, in prodigious 
volume, fell, many years ago, on the mountain above, tumbling about rocks 
and trees in the wildest confusion, as may be seen by those who wish to 
visit Coom Gill.



On this stream, and about two miles

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from Rosthwaite, is a mill, which has furnished a subject for the smaller 
series of engravings, published in 1809, and the birch trees are not much 
higher than the mill.



{marginal = Stockley Bridge}
No. 45.



STOCKLEY BRIDGE.



This is the last bridge in Borrrowdale on the road from Rosthwaite to 
Wastdale Head; and is over a Gill, tumbling down the southern side of the 
mountain Sprinkling, which mountain is the back-ground of this scene.



From Stockley Bridge, the road, which is only for foot and horse people, is
up the northern side of Sprinkling, and passing Sty Head Tarn to Sty Head, 
displays a most stupendous view of the Wastdale mountains, having the steep
and rugged sides of Lingmell and Great Gable as screens.



The road descends precipitately on


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the side of Gable, though not in a line tolerably straight, but bearing 
occasionally to every point of the compass; and many a traveller will be 
affrighted with the prospect of rocks, which, wildly projecting from the 
surface of the mountain, seem ready to hurl destruction on him; at last he 
meets with ground somewhat less pependicular, and more polished than that 
he has left, for it is of soft turf; and, travelling a mile or two, arrives
among the peaceful inhabitants at Wastdale Head.



At Wastdale Head are six dwellings: In this dale the wood is scanty, but as
it thrives well, it is a pity the shepherds do not plant more; for, by so 
doing, they would make this sequestered region a pastoral Paradise: From 
the highest house in the valley it is scarcely two miles to the head of 
Wast Water.

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{marginal = Overbeck Bridge}
No. 46.



OVER BECK BRIDGE, IN WASTDALE.



The bridge on Over Beck is about twenty yards from the lake, and a mile 
from its head; a farm called Bowderdale, the only enclosed land on either 
side of the water, has for its boundaries on three sides, the lake, with 
Over Beck and Nether Beck: Bowderdale between these streams is about half a
mile over. On the north of Over Beck, in a fine line rises the mountain 
Yew-barrow, which is the back-ground to the bridge, the bridge may likewise
be so viewed as to have Gable or Scho-fell as distances.



{marginal = Wast Water}
No. 47.



WAST WATER.



Wast Water is seen to the greatest advantage by travelling, first to the


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foot, and then up its western side to the head.



The head of this lake is in a straight line, about fourteen miles 
north-west of Ambleside; but its approach from Ambleside or Keswick, is 
either difficult or circuitous.



The best pedestrian road from Ambleside to the foot of Wast Water, is over 
Hardknott and Wrynose, and through the vale of Esk, by Sandholme bridge to 
Nether Wastdale; or leaving Eskdale earlier, cross Miterdale, the Screes 
End, and Latter-barrow at half a mile from the foot of the lake, either to 
the public house, or to the nearest part of the road leading to the lake: 
From Nether Wastdale, travel the side of the lake, and by Wastdale Head, up
the side of Gable to the Sty; and leaving Sty Head Tarn, Sprinkling Tarn, 
and Angle Tarn, all on the left hand, drop down into the vale of Langdale, 
and through it by

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Langdale Chapel to Grasmere, and Rydal Waters, which leave on the left, and
over Pelter Bridge to Ambleside. Or from Sty Head, leaving the Tarn to the 
right, pass through Seathwaite, Rosthwaite (where there is an ale-house), 
and Stonethwaite; and, keeping Eagle Crag on the right, ascend a steep 
hill, from the top of which, by proceeding some time south-east, come to 
the head of Easedale; descend into the valley, and passing Grasmere church 
return to Ambleside.



The horse-road from Ambleside is over Hard Knott, and Wrynose, through 
Eskdale by Sandholme Bridge, to the public house in Nether Wastdale; from 
thence, to Wastdale Head, and over the Sty through Seathwaite, 
Stonethwaite, and over Borrowdale Stake, through Great Langdale to 
Ambleside: Or from Seathwaite by Rosthwaite to Keswick, and back to 
Ambleside, as may suit the inclination of the traveller.



The carriage-road from Ambleside is through Coniston, Broughton, and over 
Birker Fell (a road somewhat rugged), by Sandholme Bridge to Nether 
Wastdale, (enquire at Broughton about the tides) by Bootle, Ravenglass, or 
by Muncaster: - As such who take this tour in a carriage, must not only 
approach, but return from the lake through Nether Wastdale, they will 
proceed up its side only as far as they find it pleasant.



The bridges on Nether and Over Becks are not of the safest, for, being 
narrow and shabbily fenced (that is picturesquely), some will not venture 
their carriages over them. The writer in company with a friend, passed in a
gig, in 1809, that on Nether Beck, and would have found no hesitation in 
proceeding, but having arrived at Over Beck, a sight of Yew-barrow, Gable, 
and Scho-fell, from that place, was deemed sufficient.

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Carriages may be left at Nether Beck Bridge, if the party think proper to 
proceed on foot to Over Beck, where Yew-barrow assumes its best form; and 
from thence to the head of the lake, or to Wastdale Head, just at the will 
of the tourist.



Speaking of Wastdale Head, it may be necessary to observe that the worthy 
inhabitants of that at once hospitable and inhospitable region, 
occasionally accommodate the weary traveller with lodging, and with food 
and raiment too, from their kine and fleecy stores; for which, however, 
(with the Swiss minister on the like occasion) they will accept a gratuity;
and, who would not offer it with thanks for such hospitality, particularly 
when conferred with a politeness that would little be expected by a 
southern Englishman.



The public house in Nether Wastdale has one spare bed, and its neighbours 
can furnish more if wanted, an


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accommodation very desirable to such as laying aside all fastidious 
feeling, will, for their alamodes, their fricandos, and their daubs, 
content themselves with hung beef, with bacon and eggs, and with old 
Jamaica rum; for of European liquors (unless it be bad ale) the house only 
affords that wholesomer beverage, milk and water.



From Nether Wastdale pass through Gosforth to Calder Bridge, near which 
there are some beautiful remains of an abbey, well worth the attention of 
the antiquary and the artist; and for those who have a better taste for 
bread than stones, there are two decent inns near the bridge. Calder Bridge
is only four miles from Egremont, from which return by Ennerdale, 
Lampleugh, Lowes Water, Scale Hill, and Keswick to Ambleside; but, a better
road from Egremont to Keswick, though not so pleasant to the eye, is by 
Whitehaven and Cockermouth.

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From what has been said about the carriage road to Wast Water, it will be 
evident that the same ground must be gone over from Keswick as from 
Ambleside, but in what direction to the best advantage will not be easily 
discovered; Coniston Water, Lowes Water, and the road from Coniston to 
Broughton would induce the tourist to go south about, but that part of the 
road which lies between Ambleside and Keswick may, perhaps, throw the 
preponderance into the other scale.



The rout, on foot or horseback, from Keswick to Wast Water, is by the inn 
at Buttermere, Scale Force, (which leave on the left) and over the 
mountains by Fluttering Tarn to Ennerdale Water, Ennerdale Bridge, Calder 
Bridge and Abbey, Gosforth, Nether Wastdale, and Wast Water; from which 
return by Wastdale Head, Sty Head Tarn, Seathwaite, Rosthwaite, Bowder 
Stone, Grange, Lowdore, and


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Barrow, to Keswick; and the traveller, though his guide should propose to 
proceed through Borrowdale rather than Buttermere, must take the latter 
way, because as the object of this journey is to see Wast Water, he would, 
if he went through Borrowdale, pass from the head of the lake to its foot, 
which is not so desirable as the reverse.



But should the Scale Force road be objected to for horses, the tour may be 
made by Scale Hill, Lowes Water, and Lampleugh, meeting the road first 
spoken of at Ennerdale Bridge.



Wast Water is four miles long, and about three quarters of a mile over in 
the broadest part; on the Screes or eastern side it is of a tolerably 
straight line, but the opposite shores are irregular, and appear 
beautifully embayed when seen from the higher grounds; the road is up the 
western side of the lake, often on its margin,

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and seldom more than one hundred yards from it.



Wast Water has, in its composition, more of the sublime than any other of 
the English lakes, the mountains are not only higher than the other 
mountains of the country, but swelling proudly above their intersecting 
bases, each has a distinct and characteristic appearance.



Mountains frequently appear high or low proportionately to the quantity of 
surface disclosed to the eye; thus, Gable, which is only outtopped by 
Scho-fell, from the highest houses at Wastdale Head, does not appear a high
mountain, because a line drawn from the eye of the spectator to its summit 
will subtend with the surface of the mountain a very acute angle, perhaps 
not more than ten degrees; and were it not for perspective diminution and 
atmospheric density, Gable would not appear higher than any other moun-


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[moun]tain, having its altitude in any part of the line drawn from the eye 
to the summit of Gable.



Ascend from this place to Sty Head, which is a great height, and here 
Gable, displaying more superficies, appears much higher than it does from 
the houses; but rise to the top of Sprinkling, and it will appear to the 
spectator's horizon much higher than it did even from the Sty; though the 
Sty is perhaps not more than half the perpendicular height of Sprinkling 
above the level of the valley.



View any scene from the surface of an horizontal valley, and the materials 
will appear confusedly huddled together; ascend one of its circumjacent 
mountains, and you see, distinctly, every object contained in that valley: 
Such choice will not suit the feelings of an artist, nor of the lover, 
whose stands for beauty will generally be of a moderate degree of 
elevation, and

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such as to produce the best possible arrangement of the materials before 
him.



From the borders of the lake, Scho-fell and Gable do not much altar (sic) 
appearance, but Scho-fell from the enclosures at Wastdale Head, displays a 
strikingly different contour, and if seen at a proper distance from its 
base, is a sublime object: Yew-barrow, if not like the camelion in colour, 
assumes a decidedly different form from every part of the valley.



{marginal = The Screes}
The Skrees stretch from the head to the foot of the lake on its eastern 
side, and, from the feet of the monstrous crags which often overhang their 
bases, the mountain is one continued surface of loose stones, which 
occasionally shiver into the water; nay, the rocks themselves have been 
known to fall, to the terror and dismay of their peaceful neighbours, and 
so much in volume, as to shake the very foundations of the


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mountains. - They are now at rest, except in frosty weather, when, 
sometimes a large stone is detached from the rest, and hurled to the lake.



In the writer's memorandum-book is the following passage: "1803, July 20, 
Went from Mr. Fletcher's, at Wastdale Head, to the foot of the lake, 
crossed the outlet, and got about half a mile up the side of the lake under
the Screes; the morning was uncommonly hot, and suddenly, and unexpectedly,
came on the most tremendous storm of thunder, lightning, and hail, I was 
ever witness to; though for a long time sheltered under a thick holly bush,
I was free from the hail, yet when the rain began to pour down, the bush 
was more injurious to me than servicable; and before I could get to the 
foot of the water, my clothes were as completely saturated with wet, as if 
I had been dragged for an hour in the lake: I got to Mr. Lancelot Porter's,

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whose wife is sister to Mrs. Fletcher, there I was kindly treated. It was 
in this house my friend W--- and I were hospitably fed when first, in the 
year 1800, we visited Wast Water. - My friend H--- did not go from home 
that day, but made some admirable studies of dogs and sheep."



The writer, when under the bush. was not without his apprehensions, for 
though for years no great quantity of crag had fallen from the Screes, yet 
the dread of such a circumstance, on some degree, annoyed him. 
Notwithstanding the torrents of rain, he had the curiosity to examine the 
hailstones, many of which were as large as a moderately sized walnut, and 
the contents, a globe of congealed snow inserted in a cone of transparent 
ice.



This storm was partial, its diameter being not more than half a mile; it 
stretched half way down the vale of Langdale before it had spent itself, 
but


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there it did great injury by breaking windows, and by the destruction of 
whole fields of corn.



The artist's port folio, carried under his coat, till his coat was as wet 
inside as outside, was almost dissolved, and the drawing paper much 
injured; the afternoon was of a delightful temperature, and after 
refreshing, patching, and repairing, the business of an artist was resumed 
till the coming on of night.



Latter-barrow begins to rise about a quarter of a mile from the foot of the
lake, and Wast Water is very fine from various points on Latter-barrow: 
From the sides of the Screes above Mr. Porter's are likewise other 
excellent stands.



The views on the travelled side of the lake certainly deserve great 
attention; the one here given is about a mile from its foot; and the road, 
which is of a fine elevation above the water, is seen meandering among the 
rocks

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to a good distance; Yew-barrow lies on the left, and under it, the enclosed
lands of Bowderdale; part of the Screes are on the right; Wastdale Head at 
the end of the lake, by its enclosures, serves as a scale whereby to judge 
the vastness of the mountains; and over them is Great Gable, so called from
its resemblance to the roof of a house: between Gable and Yew-barrow see a 
part of Kirk Fell, and between Gable and the Screes, Lingmell, from which 
rises Scho-fell, the summit of which cannot be seen from this place.



Wast Water is not fine when enlightened by a meridian sun from a cloudless 
sky, for then the mountains on the north and west are uniformly 
illuminated; nor is it better at three, for then the sun's rays dart down 
the middle of the vale. In cloudless weather, the evening and the morning 
will be better than the mid-day or afternoon; but cloudy weather, with 
occa-


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[occa]sional gleams of the sun, will exhibit Wast Water to great advantage 
- mists and clouds travelling the surface of the rocks, sometimes, 
displaying their huge forms as if hung in vapour, alternately light, and of
the deepest air tints, will not fail of giving great pleasure to all who 
are capable of being moved by the wonders of God in the works of his 
creation.



Those who delight in the beautiful rather than the sublime, or in its 
mixture, Wast Water, it is feared, will not satisfy. Wastdale is seldom 
seen to advantage, and those who view it under unfavourable circumstances, 
will, perhaps, return disgusted.



Those who go on foot or on horse-back to see this lake, travel much less 
ground than those who visit it in carriages; besides which, the short lines
display a much greater proportion of fine scenery than the long lines.



The account here given of Wastdale

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is more at large than was intended by the writer, the subject having grown 
upon him in attempting to give some account of the lake, and of the roads 
to and from it. Pedestrians of good bodily strength and spirits, will 
generally be gratified by their tour, and they will occasionally deviate 
from the beaten roads; even three or four ladies, with a guardian, a guide,
and a couple of horses, might occasionally walk and ride, and make such a 
gipsying extremely pleasant; the retrospect of such an excursion over 
stubborn rocks and wild mountains, furnishing pretty conversation for the 
winter's drawing-room.



Foot and horse people may perform their journey in two days; those from 
Ambleside sleeping at Nether Wastdale, or Wastdale Head; those from 
Keswick, at Calder Bridge.



Carriages must run the round with the same horses, from Ambleside, or from 
Keswick, for no post horses are


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kept at the other houses on this rout, and a carriage tour will cost, at 
least, four or five days.



By those who travel in carriages, and have little time to spare, the 
Wastdale expedition had better be declined; near Keswick and Ambleside such
persons will find abundant subject for their amusement.



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No. 48.



STANLEY GILL.



When the traveller is in Eskdale, and about sixteen miles from Ambleside, 
on his road to Wastdale, he will be near an ancient building called Dale 
Garth Hall; and if he should have the curiosity to see Stanley Gill, he may
have access to it by applying at the hall; the waterfall part of the Gill, 
is more than half a mile on the left.



The late --- Stanley, Esq. of Ponsonby (to whose son this property now

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belongs) made an excellent foot road on the banks of the Gill, which road 
three times changes sides by three bridges crossing the Gill; and this, 
with other improvements, are highly creditable to the late proprietor. - 
The chasm is awfully sublime, the rocks rising almost perpendicular over 
their bases, from the grisly sides of which, impend trees in the richest 
wildness. - The mountains of Eskdale and Wastdale are fine distances, as 
seen out of the chasm on returning to the Hall; Scho-fell is the principal.



{marginal = Goldrill Crag; River Duddon}
No. 49.



GOLD-RILL CRAG, ON THE RIVER DUDDON.



The river Duddon divides Lancashire and Cumberland, from the county stones 
on Wrynose, to its junction with the Irish sea; consequently, the scene 
before us is in both counties. -


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This view is down the river; the left hand rock is in Lancashire, and 
Goldrill Crag, which is on the right, is in Cumberland.



The Lancashire side of this river, from Broughton to Cockley Beck Bridge, 
which bridge is on the road from Ambleside to Wastdale, is chiefly the 
township of Seathwaite, a district deeply but charmingly entrenched among 
the mountains: Cockley Beck Bridge is four miles above Seathwaite chapel, 
and Goldrill Crag is half way between them.



{marginal = Vale of Langdale}
No. 50.



VALE OF LANGDALE, FROM BAYS BROWN.



Bays Brown is a farm house, and the capital of a little manor, of which Mr.
Atkinson is the lord; it lies in Langdale, on the opposite side of the 
valley to the chapel. - Pavey Ark is

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that sublime rock which rises above Stickle Tarn: The houses between the 
trees are called Oak How, on a green hill above which, the next view, No. 
51, is taken.



Langdale is visited with greater advantage from Ambleside than from any 
other place in the country, and the vale of Langdale is considered by some 
people of taste, as the finest valley in the north of England.



There are two Langdales, Great and Little; and those who make this day's 
excursion, must pass up one valley, and return through the other; but as 
each of these vallies is viewed most to the gratification of the mind, by 
looking at their heads respectively, those who have leisure, and a relish 
for such scenery, must see them in both directions; but where one day only 
can be spared for a sight of the Langdales, the approach must be by Little 
Langdale.



From Ambleside the tour is commenced by Rothay Bridge - pass through 
Clappersgate, leaving Brathay Bridge on the left, to Skelwith Bridge, over 
the same river into Lancashire; enter a mile farther again into 
Westmorland, by passing Colwith Bridge, a little beyond which, on the left,
is Colwith Force; proceed from Colwith Bridge to Fell Foot, and instead of 
ascending Wrynose, turn to the right: Langdale Pikes displaying vast 
grandeur, are soon in view; and between the Pikes and the eye, a little 
lake, called Blea Tarn, if unagitated, will reflect them; look back from 
the head of the lake on the Tilberthwaite mountains, which are composed of 
very elegant lines; proceed a little farther and look down to the head of 
Great Langdale on a scene of extraordinary sublimity and beauty - a bottom 
of rich enclosures, pleasantly scattered over with trees, and apparently 
encir-

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[encir]cled by mountains, of which, Bow Fell is the principal; and Langdale
Pikes, though not the highest, composed of the best arranged lines; descend
to Well End, the highest house on that side of the valley, and from thence 
to Mill Beck.



Should the traveller wish to ascend to the top of that Pike of Langdale 
which is called Stickle Pike, or to Stickle Tarn, he must commence his 
labours at Mill Beck. The Ambleside guide, or a person from Mill Beck, 
will, perhaps, take him by Dungeon Gill, and from the top of the Dungeon, 
to the top of the Pike or to the Tarn; but some parts of the road are so 
steep as to be painfully unpleasant to such as have not been much 
accustomed to scrambling. The Tarn is a pretty circular piece of water, 
having soft turf on three fourths of its margin; from the other fourth 
rises Pavey Ark, which is, perhaps, the grandest range of


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rocks in Westmorland, and a good point to view them from, is the outlet of 
the lake; which, beautifully clear, will serve to dilute the traveller's 
Cogniac brandy, or old Jamaica rum, a most grateful potation after his 
labourious ascent, or to wash down the hard eggs and hung mutton presented 
by his hostess. Leaving the foot of the Tarn on the edge of the hill, a 
peat or turf road soon appears, on which descend to Mill Beck; the eye of 
the spectator, whether directed up or down the valley, is cheared all the 
way with views of fields, richly bedecked with wood, and encircled by high 
mountains. Dungeon Gill passes through a deep cleft of the mountains, the 
tops of which cleft so overhang its basis, as nearly to meet; there is, 
indeed, a large stone stretching from side to side, over which, some have 
had the temerity to cross this hideous gulph.

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As the peat road is a better ascent to the Tarn, than by Dungeon Gill, some
will prefer it both for ascent and descent.



From Mill Beck pass through the meadows to Langdale chapel, between which 
places take retrospective views, and see Bow Fell and Langdale Pikes, which
are excellent objects. - From Langdale Chapel the road is by Grasmere and 
Rydal Waters (which leave on the left) and over Pelter Bridge to Ambleside.
If these vallies are twice to be visited it is scarcely necessary to 
observe that the retrospective tour must be from Ambleside by Pelter 
Bridge.



No. 51.



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LANGDALE PIKES, FROM OAK HOW.



Oak How is near six miles from Ambleside. Mill Beck House is not seen here,
being hid by the foot of the


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mountain on the left; it is likewise higher in the valley than the house 
seen under the Pikes. - Pavey Ark, in the last range of distance, is over 
the foreground rock on the right; and the greatest part of the line 
traversed to and from the Tarn, may be traced on this print, by such as 
marked their steps with attention; it is chiefly the beginning and end of 
this devious way that cannot be seen from this point.



{marginal = Raw Head}
No. 52.



ROW HEAD, IN LANGDALE



Row Head is on the opposite side of the Langdale valley to Oak How, and in 
the distance are the Pikes so often spoken of before.



{marginal = Langdale Head}
No. 53.



LANGDALE HEAD.



This view of the high end of the

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vale of Langdale, is taken near a farm called Side House, which is about 
seven miles from Ambleside: The pointed distant summit is Bow Fell, and the
middle mountain on the right is the base of Langdale Pikes.



{marginal = Gimmer Crag, Langdale}
No. 54.



GIMMER CRAG, IN LANGDALE.



This view of the Pikes is from the common, a mile above Wall End, and nine 
or ten miles from Ambleside - Gimmer Crag is that grand surface of rock 
which rises to an apex in the middle of the distance. - This view of 
Langdale Pikes bears a considerable resemblance to the Screes on Wast 
Water.



The road to Wastdale, over Langdale Head, and to Borrowdale, by the Stake, 
is between the foot of Bow Fell, (which foot is the middle distance) and 
the base of the Pikes.



{marginal = Dove Crag, Hartsop}
No. 55.



DOVE CRAG, IN HARTSHOPE.



Those who visit Ulls Water from Ambleside, on travelling seven miles from 
that place, pass by Brother Water, which is in Hartshope. The torrent, some
of which is here represented, falls into that little lake near Hartshope 
Hall, about two miles below the place where this view was taken - the grand
rock in the background is called Dove Crag.



{marginal = Patterdale; Ullswater}
No. 56.



THE VALE OF PATTERDALE.



The vale of Patterdale lies on the head of Ulls Water.



Ulls Water may be visited from Penrith, from Keswick, or from Ambleside.



To those who approach the lake by

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Penrith, it will be conveniently seen on their progress from that place to 
Ambleside, which is twenty-four miles; eighteen or nineteen of this ride 
(from Penrith to Brother Water) are by turns beautiful and sublime.



Visitors from Scotland or the north of England should take Ulls Water on 
their road to Ambleside; in this way they face the best scenery of the lake
- if this journey is to be performed in one day, the traveller must alight 
at Gow-barrow Park, to see, from Lyulph's Tower, one of the first-rate 
views upon the lake: Ara Force, half a mile from the tower, is worth 
observation. Those who wish to spend more time at Ulls Water, may discharge
their horses at Patterdale; but as there are no post horses there, when 
wanted, they must be sent for to Ambleside.



Tourists from the south usually enter this country by Kendal or Ulverstone,
and such will take the lake of Ulls


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Water with most convenience from Ambleside.



The road to Ulls Water, from Ambleside, is wild and mountainous; the ascent
from Ambleside is steep, with little variation, to the top of Kirkstone. 
This place takes its name from a sort of cubical stone on the left, called 
Kirkstone; from which there is an interesting little peep at the lake of 
Brother Water, which, at intervals, displays itself during the descent into
the valley.



The views round Brother Water are sublime, the vale is fertile and clothed 
in wood, which diminishes in quantity as it ascends the mountains, and is 
generally in excellent distribution: from Brother Water to the inn at 
Patterdale the road is good, and winds pleasantly among trees, affording 
now and then a glimpse of the surrounding country.



The head of Ulls Water lies south-

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[south-]west of its foot, the lake is of an irregular figure, and composed 
of three unequal reaches, the middle of which is somewhat larger than the 
northern one; the shortest is seen from the inn at Patterdale, and is not 
half the length of either of the others: Ulls Water is less unequal in its 
breadth than the other lakes, it is in many places not more than half a 
mile across, but seldom exceeds three quarters; it is less than Windermere,
but larger than the rest of the English lakes.



Ulls Water lies engulphed at the feet of majestic mountains, which rise 
sublimely from the valley: Place Fell descends shivering into the lake 
almost perpendicularly from a vast height; it skirts the lake from Birk 
Fell Force higher than its head. The opposite mountains are less uniform, 
their summits are removed to various and greater distances from the water, 
and


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the rocks project from their surfaces in a style of superior grandeur.



Were these mountains divested of wood, they would exhibit a vastness and 
sublimity rivalled only by those of Wast Water.



Nothing can exceed the dresses and the decorations of this sublimity; the 
whole space from Gow-barrow to the inn at Patterdale is one rich scene of 
vegetation; oak, ash, birch, alder, and other trees of stately growth, and 
in the wildest luxuriance, undulating, and impending over the rocky 
protuberances every where starting from the mountains, render this the 
loveliest ride amongst the lakes.



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Those who post through this country see little: Many travellers would fly 
as on "the wings of the wind," unless opposed by such stubborn bits of 
stuff as Kirkstone and the Raise, or by Whinlatter: with how much more of 
refined pleasure would a tour be per-

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[per]formed, were they occasionally to alight and "range the fields," 
either as directed, or at pleasure, where, on some commanding knoll, they 
might watch the progress of the clouds upon the face of the mountains, or 
their inverted summits as reflected in the crystal mirror; or see the 
declining sun with his warm rays, gilding the rocks and trees, which, 
gradually losing their brilliant hues, sink, at length, into complete 
obscurity.



What enjoyment can be derived by such as, lolling in their coaches or their
chariots, are confined to the vision of their windows! Many so bevehicled 
have passed from Keswick to Ambleside, and from Ambleside to Penrith, 
uniformly leaving the finest views behind them.



A sociable is a better conveyance, unless it be on the barouche seat, than 
a coach or a post-chaise; and as heavy carriages are unfit for rough roads


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the lake innkeepers ought to accommodate their guests with, not only 
sociables, but carts on the sociable construction; the carts to be drawn by
single horses, and managed by drivers well acquainted with the country.



Human ingenuity cannot devise a method by which the monotonies of life 
would be more pleasantly diversified than by such occasional jaunting: On 
any little eminence, a tent might be planted in a moment, and from the 
larder and bins of the cart refreshment procured; at the pleasure of the 
party, plaintive solos on the clarionet or flute would have a fine effect 
among the rocks, which, during intervals of rest, would echo back in soft 
reverberation, the melancholy notes, and produce on the mind an union of 
the most pleasing sensations.



For such excursions, ten or twelve hours would be little enough for most 
people.

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The mountains on the immediate head of the water are not so steep as those 
which border it on the sides half way down, but they are rich in wood. St. 
Sunday, or St. Sundian Crag, swells sublimely above them, and is a fine 
object from many parts of the valley; from Gow-barrow on one side, and 
Place Fell on the other side of the lake, the mountains gradually diminish 
into little hills, and from a gigantic ruggedness, to a soft and verdant 
meadow and pasturage.



Those who see Ulls Water from Ambleside, and have only one day to spare for
that purpose, must go upon the lake, and not neglect the Purse, which is a 
little bay near the house called Blawike, House Holm, and Lyulphs Tower, 
from each of which places the head of the lake, with the intermediate 
matter, is in grand arrangement.



From Lyulphs Tower the party may


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return to the inn at Patterdale on foot, but if in a carriage, it must meet
the party at the tower; in preference to this, none must be persuaded to 
adopt a retrograde movement. At Powley Bridge, which is at the foot of the 
lake, there is a respectable inn: Powley Bridge is seven miles north of the
foot of



{marginal = Hawes Water}
HAWS WATER,



which is three miles long: it lies deeply intrenched among the mountains; 
its banks are sprinkled with trees as wildly as if shed from the heavens: 
footmen (not the party coloured gentlemen, for they would scorn such 
meanness) may make charming excursions, by passing from Kendal through Long
Sleddale, over Harter Fell, by Chapel Hill, to Haws Water; and from thence 
by way of Powley Bridge, Ulls Water, and Patterdale to Ambleside - there is
plea-

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[plea]sant road up the southern side of Ulls Water, from Powley Bridge to 
Patterdale, but this is only a horse and foot-road; it is not, however, a 
very safe horse road under Place Fell.



One of the most interesting views of the vale of Patterdale, is given in 
this print, which is taken from the side of Place Fell, a little above the 
horse-road, which parts with carriage-road at Hartshope, meeting it again 
at Goldrill Bridge near the inn; the oak tree growing out of the rock is an
accurate portrait: The church with several buildings are seen here, and, 
amongst other mansions, that on the western side of the water, lately 
erected by the Rev. --- Askew, Rector of Greystock: Patterdale Hall, the 
seat of --- Mouncey, Esq. cannot be seen from this place. - Hall Bank is 
the hill seen over the church, and beyond Hall Bank the entrance to


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Glenridden, above which, rises Glenridden Dodd; a little indication of 
Stybarrow Crag, which is near the lake, may be discovered at an equal 
distance from the islands; on the same side of the lake, but lower, see a 
part of the park at Gow-barrow; something of Place Fell, but not its 
grandest part, is seen beyond the oak tree.



No. 57.



{marginal = St Patrick's Church, Patterdale}
PATTERDALE CHURCH.



This view of Patterdale Church, with the Glenridden mountains, was taken 
from the window of one of the lodging rooms at the inn at Patterdale, 
excepting the foreground of rocks, which was brought from the back of the 
house.

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{marginal = yew tree, Patterdale}
No. 58.



YEW TREE IN PATTERDALE CHURCH-YARD.



This Yew Tree, picturesque in ruin, is said, formerly, to have shaded 
considerably more ground than it does at present, which is probable from 
its trunk being somewhat disproportioned to its branches; the church and 
the tree are about a quarter of a mile from the inn on the road to the 
lake.



{marginal = Glencoyne}
No. 59 and 60.



GLEN COIN.



Glen Coin is a farm house, belonging to His Grace the Duke of Norfolk.



The building itself is well formed for the purpose of an artist, and age 
has given more interest to the form, by planting mosses and other


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vegetables upon it; the hand of time has likewise been judiciously at work 
with his pencil, his palette being set with all the hues of nature. By the 
side of this building runs a brook dividing Westmorland from Cumberland, 
and over the brook is a picturesque bridge, which bridge is represented in 
the last of this series of prints. From the valley, in which this house is 
placed, the mountains rise precipitously and high, and in every direction 
form fine back grounds: The house is rich in its accompaniments of wood, 
for the trees in some situations spread over it with an uncommon mixture of
wildness and elegance; and this old building, surrounded as it is by all 
that is grand and picturesque, is, of its kind, a better place for study 
than any other known to the artist.



Glen Coin is two or three hundred yards out of the road, from the inn

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at Patterdale to Lyulphs Tower, and between two and three miles from the 
former place.



About half the land which borders Ulls Water on the western side is the 
property of the Duke of Norfolk, who, feeling for the beauty of his 
possessions, will not allow of indiscriminate extermination.



THE END.


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London: Printed by J. BARFIELD,
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