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[No]thing exceeds, in composition, the parts of this landscape.
They are all great, and lie in fine order of perspective. If the
view be taken from the round knoll, at the lower end of the lake,
the appearance of the mountains that bound it is astonishing. You
have Mellbreak on the right, and Grasmire on the left, and
betwixt them, a stupendous amphitheatre of mountains, whose tops
are all broken and dissimilar, and of different hues, and their
bases skirted with wood, or clothed with verdure. In the centre
point of this amphitheatre is a huge pyramidal broken rock, that
seems with its figure to change place, as you move across the
fore-ground, and gives much variety to the scenes, and alters the
picture at every pace. In short, the picturesque views in this
district are many; some mixt, others purely sublime, but all
surprise and please. The genius of the greatest adepts in
landscape, might here improve in taste and judgement; and the
most enthusiastic ardor for pastoral poetry and painting, will
here find an inexhaustible source of scenes and images.
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