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A Visit To The English Lakes.
A VISIT TO THE ENGLISH LAKES .
( Continued from page 178 . ) TT 7 YTHBURN now comes in sight , with its " modest house of prayer , As lowly as the lowliest dwelling . " and , as we get nearer to it , we see how appropriate the
description" Humble it is , and meek , and very low , And speaks its purpose by a single bell . " From here the ascent is often made of "Blue Helvellyn ! hill of hills ! Giant amongst the giants . ' " Passing Wy thburn " drear Helvellyn , " as Hartley Coleridge sty les it , is
" seen AJairly ascending amitlst crags anil hills The mightiest one—associate of the sky !" Thirlmere , the proposed Manchester reservoir , is next reached , and its banks skirted ; we are in "The narrow valley of St . John ,
Down sloping to the western sky ;" and Castle Rock is seen in the distance , " with airy turrets crown'd , Buttress and rampires' circling bound , And mighty keep and tower ; Scem'd some primeval giant ' s hand The castle's massive walls had plann'd A pondrous bulwark to withstand Ambitious Nimrod ' s power . "
As Ave draw nearer Ave find its extraordinary appearance somewhat warrants Sir Walter Scott's exaggeration . We pass " Beneath the castle ' s gloomy pride , " and over " the nestling stream " that crosses the road . In front rise " stern Blencathara ' s perilous height , " and " dim Skiddaiv , " who
" shrouds His double front among Atlantic clouds , " And pours forth streams more sweet than Castaly . " " Lovel y Derwent AVater " lays on our left , Avith its beautifully wooded heights and islets , and Keswick in a snug little corner . We still rattle along up and down hill , with the pleasantest of company : the coachman has just taken the
horn and blows a blast to announce our approach , children run after us for coppers to be thrown to them , and with a few more tugs and jolts we roll into the " metropolis of the lakes . " AVe succeed in finding the house to which we are directed , and enjoy a comfortable tea . This OA'er , we ramble about Keswick , and visit the new ordnance model of the lakes , which certainly g ives us as good an idea as possible of the mountains and valleys ; the scale is six inches to the mile . Some of the houses near Keswick are very p icturesque , being covered with ivy and moss , and look like "things of nature . " Our survey
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
A Visit To The English Lakes.
A VISIT TO THE ENGLISH LAKES .
( Continued from page 178 . ) TT 7 YTHBURN now comes in sight , with its " modest house of prayer , As lowly as the lowliest dwelling . " and , as we get nearer to it , we see how appropriate the
description" Humble it is , and meek , and very low , And speaks its purpose by a single bell . " From here the ascent is often made of "Blue Helvellyn ! hill of hills ! Giant amongst the giants . ' " Passing Wy thburn " drear Helvellyn , " as Hartley Coleridge sty les it , is
" seen AJairly ascending amitlst crags anil hills The mightiest one—associate of the sky !" Thirlmere , the proposed Manchester reservoir , is next reached , and its banks skirted ; we are in "The narrow valley of St . John ,
Down sloping to the western sky ;" and Castle Rock is seen in the distance , " with airy turrets crown'd , Buttress and rampires' circling bound , And mighty keep and tower ; Scem'd some primeval giant ' s hand The castle's massive walls had plann'd A pondrous bulwark to withstand Ambitious Nimrod ' s power . "
As Ave draw nearer Ave find its extraordinary appearance somewhat warrants Sir Walter Scott's exaggeration . We pass " Beneath the castle ' s gloomy pride , " and over " the nestling stream " that crosses the road . In front rise " stern Blencathara ' s perilous height , " and " dim Skiddaiv , " who
" shrouds His double front among Atlantic clouds , " And pours forth streams more sweet than Castaly . " " Lovel y Derwent AVater " lays on our left , Avith its beautifully wooded heights and islets , and Keswick in a snug little corner . We still rattle along up and down hill , with the pleasantest of company : the coachman has just taken the
horn and blows a blast to announce our approach , children run after us for coppers to be thrown to them , and with a few more tugs and jolts we roll into the " metropolis of the lakes . " AVe succeed in finding the house to which we are directed , and enjoy a comfortable tea . This OA'er , we ramble about Keswick , and visit the new ordnance model of the lakes , which certainly g ives us as good an idea as possible of the mountains and valleys ; the scale is six inches to the mile . Some of the houses near Keswick are very p icturesque , being covered with ivy and moss , and look like "things of nature . " Our survey