button to main menu  Wordsworth's Guide 1810, edn 1835
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page 112
mountains are not inferior in beauty of line, or variety of summit, number of lakes, and transparency of water; not in colouring of rock, or softness of turf; but in height and extent only. The mountains here are all accessible to the summit, and furnish prospects no less surprising, and with more variety, than the Alps themselves. The tops of the highest Alps are inaccessible, being covered with everlasting snow, which commencing at regular heights above the cultivated tracts, or wooded and verdant sides, form indeed the highest contrast in nature. For there may be seen all the variety of climate in one view. To this, however, we oppose the sight of the ocean, from the summits of all the higher mountains, as it appears intersected with promontories, decorated with islands, and animated with navigation." - West's Guide, p.5.

excursions
  Scafell Pike
EXCURSIONS TO THE TOP OF SCAWFELL AND ON THE BANKS OF ULSWATER.

IT was my intention, several years ago, to describe a regular tour through this country, taking the different scenes in the most favour-
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