|
|
Page 77:-
enough to command a view of the circumjacent vallies; and not so
lofty as to lessen the importance of the surrounding mountains.
Every rocky knoll presents a new combination of scenery.
Windermere, a fine expanse of water with its ornamented banks;
the town of Hawkshead and its environs, with Blelham Tarn, and
the irregularly shaped Esthwaite Water; Loughrigg with its tarn,
and Langdale with Elterwater; the beautiful vales of Grasmere and
Rydal, with their two lakes, and the town and highly embellished
neighbourhood of Ambleside; are the lowland objects. The
circumscribing mountains of Coniston, Langdale, Grasmere, Rydal,
Ambleside, and Troutbeck, are at such eligible distances that not
only their elegantly formed outlines, but also their varied
surface of rock and verdure, can clearly be distinguished. A
small piece of Coniston Water, and the like of Thirlmere, are
just sufficient to shew the place of those two lakes. The
mountain Skiddaw seen over Dunmail Raise, and the top of
Ingleborough in the direction of the Low Wood Inn, are extraneous
objects beyond the common bounds of the panorama.
|
