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'I left Keswick,' says he, 'and took the Ambleside road, in a
gloomy morning, and about two miles (or rather about a mile) from
the town, mounted an eminence called Castle-rig, and, the sun
breaking out, discovered the most enchanting view I have yet
seen, of the whole valley behind me; the two lakes, the river,
the mountains in all their glory; so that I had almost a mind to
have gone back again.' This is certainly a most ravishing morning
view, of the bird's eye kind. For here we have, seen in all their
beauty, a circuit of twenty miles; two Lakes, Derwent and
Bassenthwaite, and the river serpentizing between them; the town
of Keswick and the church of Crosthwaite in the central points;
an extensive fertile plain, and all the stupendous mountains that
surround this delicious spot.
The druid-temple, delineated in Pennant's tour, lies about half a
mile to the right, but will be more conveniently seen from the
Penrith road. Descend to
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