that overhangs the water, there is an extremely fine view of the upper and middle reaches. Patterdale is about four miles from Sandwike. The stranger who wishes to guard against unpleasant contingencies should not start on this ramble late in the day.

LAKES.

Ir is not our intention to describe in this place more than the three principal Lakes of the District, Windermere, Ulleswater, and Derwentwater. The other meres and smaller sheets of water, will be more conveniently noticed in the various parts of this volume, when they occur upon the routes over which the tourist is conducted.

WINDERMERE.

Windermere, or more properly Winandermere, the English Zürich, is about eleven miles in length, and one mile in breadth. It forms part of the county of Westmorland, although the greatest extent of smargin belongs to Lancashire; and what seems somewhat singular, it is for county purposes considered to be altogether in the little township of Applethwaite. It has many feeders, the principal of which is formed by the confluence of the Brathay and Rothay shortly before entering the Lake. The streams from Troutbeck, Blelham Tarn, and Esthwaite Water, also pour in their waters at different points. Numerous islands, varying considerably in size, diversify its surface at no great distance from one another-none of them being more than four and a half miles from the central part of the