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CONISTON.
From Ulverston to Coniston-water is eight miles, either by
Penny-bridge or by Lowick, both excellent carriage roads. [1] By
Lowick the road is along a narrow vale, beautifully divided by
hanging inclosures and scattered farms, half way up the
mountains' sides, whose various heads are covered with heath and
brown vegetation. About three miles from Ulverston, observe a
farm house on the left, and a group of houses before you on the
right. - Stop at the gate on the brow of the hill, and have a
distant view of the lake, finely intersected with high crowned
peninsulas. At the upper end, a snow white house is seen, under a
hanging wood, and to the north east, the lake seems to wind round
the mountains' feet. The whole range of Coniston-fells is now in
sight, and under them a lower sweep of dark rocks frown over the
crystal surface of the lake. Advancing on the left see
Lowick-hall, once the seat of a family of that name. Behind this
a dismal scene of barrenness presents itself; clustered
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[1]
Company that return to Ulverston the same day should turn off to
the left near Lowick bridge, to Penny-bridge, and have a charming
view of a most beautiful bay, especially if the tide be up. It
opens a little short of Penny-bridge, and continues to Greenodd,
at the meeting of the rivers Leven and Crake, where this country
slate is laid up for exportation.
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