Prefatory Introduction. It is now nearly four years since, in company with a party of select friends, I visited the northern parts of England. Our tour was principally projected for the purpose of beholding the justlycelebrated Lakes of Cumberland and Westmoreland, although we missed no opportunity of seeing whatever else was worthy of observation; but to attempt a delineation of our sensations, on the first view of these sublimelybeauteous objects, would be vain ; and to undertake a description of what has |