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Glencoin,- all recesses full of beauty. Tales are told of
artists who, turning into Glencoin, to find materials for a
sketch, have not come out again for three months, finding
themselves overwhelmed with tempting subjects for the
pencil. The singularly primitive character of the popular
mind in those secluded corners is almost as great an
incitement to study as the variety and richness of the
foregrounds and the colouring.
Ullswater has two bends, and is shaped like a relaxed Z. At
the first bend, the boat draws to shore, below Lyulph's
Tower, an ivy-covered little castle, built for a
shooting-box by the late Duke of Norfolk; but it stands on
the site of a real old tower, named, it is said, after the
Ulf, or L'Ulf, the first Baron of Greystoke, who gave its
name to the lake. Some, however, insist that the real name
is Wolf's Tower. The park which surrounds it, and stretches
down to the lake, is studded with ancient trees; and the
sides of its watercourses, and the depths of its ravines,
are luxuriantly wooded. Vast hills, with climbing tracks,
rise behind, on which the herds of deer are occasionally
seen, like brown shadows from the clouds. They are safe
there from being startled (as they are in the glades of the
park) by strangers who come to find out Ara Force by
following the sound of the fall. Our tourist must take a
guide to this waterfall from the tower.
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