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space near the church, which used to be called the lungs of
Bowness. The two great inns, however, are in airy
situations,- the garden platform of Ullock's Royal Hotel
overlooking the gardens that slope down to the shore; and
the Crown being on a hill which commands the whole place.
These inns are both extremely well managed; and it is for
the traveller to say whether their charges, which are
uniform, justify a complaint which has been made, (we think
unreasonably as regards the Lake District in general) of
high prices. During the season, which extends from May to
November, the charges are two shillings for breakfast,
(including meat, fish, &c.,) two shillings and sixpence
for dinner; and one shilling and sixpence for tea. A private
sitting-room is charged two shillings and sixpence per day.
Ullock's Hotel, called Royal since the visit of Queen
Adelaide in 1840, makes up between seventy and eighty beds.
Close at hand is a little museum, where the birds of the
district may be seen, exceedingly well stuffed and arranged
by Mr. Armstrong, a waiter at the hotel. The Crown has ten
private sitting rooms, and makes up ninety beds. Nothing can
well exceed the beauty of the view from its garden seats.
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There is an exhibition open in Bowness during the summer
months, which, it will be useful, and particularly agreeable
to the stranger to visit, before he penetrates further into
the district. Mr. and Mrs. Lindsey Aspland exhibit their
paintings of lake scenery every summer; and their pictures
are of a high order of merit as works of art, as well as for
their fidelity as portraits of scenery. Mr. Aspland's
outline sketches are excel-
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