SEEN AT THE SLATE QUARRY AT BLOWICK ON ULLESWATER.

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passed on the right about a mile from the bridge, and Rampsbeck Lodge, on the left about two miles from the same place; a little further is the village of Watermillock. So far the lake has lain amongst somewhat tame scenery, but here promise is given of its coming grandeur. Halsteads, the seat of John Marshall, Esq., is seen on the Skelley Neb promontory, to the left-the grounds circling which are beautifully laid out. The wood at the foot of Hallin Fell, on the other shore, has a pleasing effect. A mile from Halsteads, Gowbarrow Park is entered; this park, which contains upwards of a thousand acres, must attract the attention of the most careless observer, by its " grace of forest charms decayed," and innumerable sylvan groups of great beauty still remain, round which herds of deer will be seen quietly feeding. It belongs to Henry Howard, Esq. of Greystock Castle, to whom it was devised by the Duke of Norfolk, his uncle. The Duke's predecessor erected upon an eminence in the park a hunting-box in the castellated style, called Lyulph's Tower, commanding a splendid view of the lake. The station from which the engraving, forming the frontispiece to this volume, is taken, is an elevated rock near the Airey Force Glen; and not far distant is the spot from which one of the outline views was sketched. About five and a half miles from Pooley Bridge, and close to the Tower, a stream is crossed by a small bridge, a mile above which, in a rocky dell, is Airey Force, a waterfall of considerable volume. Two wooden bridges are thrown from bank to bank, one above, the other below the fall. Huge rocks, in every variety of form, hem in a stream, here in a state of foaming agitation, there a dark pool, whilst over-arching trees and shrubs exclude the glare of day, and cast a solemnity of beauty over the scene, which, without exception, is the finest of its kind in the lake district.* Shortly after leaving the park, the road

* This glen is the scene of Wordsworth's Somnambulist, verses in which he narrates a melancholy incident to the following effect:In a castle which occupied the site of Lyulph's Tower, there dwelt

through Matterdale to Keswick strikes off. Glencoin Beck, issuing from Linking Dale Head, runs under the road a mile beyond Airey Bridge, and forms the line of demarcation between Cumberland and Westmorland. The highest reach of the lake is now unfolded to the view. The road soon afterwards passes under Stybarrow Crag, at which point it has been much widenedformerly it was a narrow path between the steep mountain and the water's edge. An ancestor of the Mounseys of Goldrill Cottage acquired the title of King of

in days long passed away, a fair damoselle, the wooed of many suitors. Sir Eglamore, the knight of her choice, was in duty bound to prove his knightly worth by seeking and accomplishing deeds of high emprize in distant lands. He sailed to other shores, and month after month disappeared without bringing tidings of either his welfare or return. The neglected Emma fell into a bewildered state of mind, her sleep became infected with his image, and sometimes in dreams she threaded her way to the holly bower on Airey stream, where she last parted from her errant lover. One evening, when she had betaken herself thither, her faculties wrapped in sleep, Sir Eglamore unexpectedly approached the castle, and perceived her to his great astonishment; upon advancing, she awoke, and fell with the suddenness of the shock, into the stream, from which she was rescued by the knight only in time to hear her dying expression of belief in his constancy. Straightway he built himself a cell in the glen, and spent the remainder of his days as an anchorite:

"Seine Waffen sieht er nimmer,

Noch sein treues Ross."

We subjoin the first and last stanza of the poem, which forms a beautiful companion to Schiller's "Knight of Toggenburg: "

Patterdale, from having successfully repulsed a body of Scotch moss-troopers at this place, with the aid of a few villagers. His palatial residence was at that time Patterdale Hall; but a few years ago the patrimonial estate was sold to Mr. Marshall of Leeds. "The rude mountains above," says Mrs. Radcliffe, after sketching the view from an elevation opposite the Birk Fell promontory, "almost seem to have fallen back from the shore to admit this landscape within their hollow bosom, and then bending abruptly, appear, like Milton's Adam viewing the sleeping Eve, to hang over it enamoured." After crossing the brook from Glenridding, Glenridding House (Rev. Mr. Askew) is on the left; Patterdale Hall is passed on the right, and the village of

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is soon afterwards reached. The Church-yard, in which lie interred the remains of the unfortunate Charles Gough, contains a yew-tree of remarkable size. At the Hotel, where there is excellent accommodation, guides may be had to any of the mountains in the vicinity, and boats and carriages procured for excursions. A few days might be pleasantly spent at this place, investigating the beauties of the neighbourhood; for in addition to the beaux points de vue presently noticed, there are innumerable nooks and shy recesses in the dells and by the lake,

"Where flow'rets blow, and whispering Naiads dwell;" *

which the leisurely wanderer has only to see in order to admire. The valley, from Gowbarrow Park upwards, abounds in the most luxuriant variety of vegetation, combining with the mountainous ranges to form some of the grandest scenes that eye can behold. An afternoon may be advantageously employed in visiting the islands, of which there are four: House Holm,

* HARTLEY COLERIDGE.