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ULLES WATER
Is the largest lake, next to Windermere, in the district,
being nine miles in length and one in breadth. Its average
depth is from twenty to thirty-five fathoms; and its waters
abound in excellent trout, and are crowded with shoals of
skellies, a kind of fresh-water herring: a few char are also
found in the lake, and great quantities of eels are taken in
the Eamont, as they migrate from the lake in autumn. The
principal feeders are Grisedale Beck, overflowing from a
large tarn, high up between Seat-Sandal and Helvellyn, and
Goldrill Beck, whose waters are the united streams that pour
out of Blea and Angle Tarns. The water is of a zig-zag form,
running as it were into the mountains, the hill-sides
plentifully covered with wood, and rich meadows lying at its
foot. It consists of three reaches: the first or lowest,
three miles in length, has pretty sloping banks; the view up
this has, in front, Hallin Fell, with Swarth Fell on the
left, and on the right, the sweetly-situated villas of
Rampsbeck, Beauthorn, Lemon Hall, and the white hamlet of
Watermillock. The second reach is four miles long, having
the huge Helvellyn
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