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Page 11:-
and shade, the air, the winds, the clouds, the situation with
respect to objects, and the time of the day. For though the
ruling tints be permanent, yet the green and gold of the meadow
and vale, and the brown and purple of the mountain, the silver
gray of the rock, and the azure hue of the cloud-topt pike, are
frequently varied in appearance, by an inter-mixture of
reflection from wandering clouds, or other bodies, or a sudden
stream of sunshine that harmonizes all the parts anew. The
pleasure therefore arising from such scenes is in some sort
accidental.
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telescope
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To render the tour more agreeable, the company should be provided
with a telescope, for viewing the fronts and summits of
inacccssible (sic) rocks, and the distant country from the tops
of the high mountains Skiddaw and Helvellyn. [1]
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[1]
As descriptions of prospects, greatly extended and variegated,
are often more tedious than entertaining, perhaps the reader will
not lament that our author has not any where attempted to
delineate a view taken from either of these capital mountains,
but rather wish he had shown the same judgement of omission in
some other parts of his work. However, as an apology of the most
persuasive kind for what may appear either prolix or too
high-coloured, in some of the following descriptions, let it be
noted by the candid reader, at the out-set, that the lakes were
his favourite object, and on which he thought enough could scarce
ever be said, and, that the seducing effects of an ardent
passion, are, in any case, easier to discover in others, than to
rectify in ourselves. X.
N. B. In this edition is given Mrs. Radcliffe's description of
the scenery in a ride over Skiddaw, Addenda, Article XI.
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