button to main menu  Description of Sixty Studies, pp.94-95
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whose wife is sister to Mrs. Fletcher, there I was kindly treated. It was in this house my friend W--- and I were hospitably fed when first, in the year 1800, we visited Wast Water. - My friend H--- did not go from home that day, but made some admirable studies of dogs and sheep."
The writer, when under the bush. was not without his apprehensions, for though for years no great quantity of crag had fallen from the Screes, yet the dread of such a circumstance, on some degree, annoyed him. Notwithstanding the torrents of rain, he had the curiosity to examine the hailstones, many of which were as large as a moderately sized walnut, and the contents, a globe of congealed snow inserted in a cone of transparent ice.
This storm was partial, its diameter being not more than half a mile; it stretched half way down the vale of Langdale before it had spent itself, but
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there it did great injury by breaking windows, and by the destruction of whole fields of corn.
The artist's port folio, carried under his coat, till his coat was as wet inside as outside, was almost dissolved, and the drawing paper much injured; the afternoon was of a delightful temperature, and after refreshing, patching, and repairing, the business of an artist was resumed till the coming on of night.
Latter-barrow begins to rise about a quarter of a mile from the foot of the lake, and Wast Water is very fine from various points on Latter-barrow: From the sides of the Screes above Mr. Porter's are likewise other excellent stands.
The views on the travelled side of the lake certainly deserve great attention; the one here given is about a mile from its foot; and the road, which is of a fine elevation above the water, is seen meandering among the rocks
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