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preface, page x:-
smaller prints, the writer published, last summer, a set of seventy-eight plates, price five guineas; to be had, of the publishers of the present work.
page 1:-

description of plates
A DESCRIPTION, &c.


  plate 1
  Coniston Water
No. 1.


CONISTON WATER.

CONISTON water is six miles in length, and the greatest breadth three quarters of a mile; it is encircled by an excellent road, which is often on the margin of the water and scarcely ever a mile from it: the most interesting part of this road is that which lies on the eastern side of the lake, and is a part of that usually travelled by tourists in their way to Coniston, or Hawkshead, from Ulverstone.
The views on this road are interesting by their variety and their beauty, all the way from Nibthwaite, which lies at the foot, to the New Inn, which
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