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To return to Whittaker: 'At Hornby, a fine opening to the right,
consisting of the vallies formed by the Wenning and the Greta,
discloses new scenes of beauties, again terminated by
Ingleborough, now seen in nearer and more distinct majesty; after
which, the principal opening, growing still more expanded, and
suffering nothing, as yet, from its increased elevation, either
in point of shade or fertility, approaches Kirkby Lonsdale. The
soft and luxuriant beauties of this place - terminated by the
Howgill Fells, a group of mountains of striking form, though
inferior to Ingleborough - are scarcely to be surpassed: and he
who would wish for a happier combination of river, meadow, and
indigenous wood of the richest growth, than that which appears
beneath the celebrated Terrace of this place,[1] might have cause
to lament that his taste was too fastidious to admit of any
gratification from landscape.
'As we advance northward, the vale gradually undergoes some
diminution of its charms, though none of its fertility, till it
is met by the Rothay from the east. It then assumes, more and
more, the character of a high mountain glen, gradually ascending
and contracting, while it grows dimutive in its features, as well
as cold and barren in proportion, till, after a rapid turn
towards the east, the glen and brook of Lune terminate on the
verge of Ravenstonedale, in Westmorland.'
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