button to main menu  Description of Sixty Studies, pp.74-75
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side of the lake under Withop Woods: - return to Keswick, after leaving the lake, by Brathwaite and Portinscale.

  plate 37
  Stonycroft Bridge
No. 37.


STONYCROFT BRIDGE.

Accident has given to the vale of Newlands, a peculiar beauty in the arrangement of its trees, for they belong to many people; and it is further highly interesting from the grand mountains which surround it.
Stonycroft Bridge, in the vale of Newlands, is four miles from Keswick, on the horse-road to Buttermere - the smeltery lately erected by W. E. Sheffield, Esq. is on this stream, having Rollingend on the left, and Barrow on the right, and is something more than a quarter of a mile above the bridge: Causey Pike closes this scene.
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  plate 38
  Low Snab
No. 38.


LOW SNAB, IN NEWLANDS,

Is the last house in that part of the valley which branches towards Dalehead, a mountain seen in the middle of this view.

  plate 39
  Grange, Borrowdale
No. 39.


GRANGE, IN BORROWDALE.

All the way from Castlerigg to Bowder Stone is richly replete with fore-ground studies, which will readily be discovered by such as give themselves the trouble to scramble up the sides of the mountains.
The present foreground is taken from the side of Grange Fell, and the village and mountain beyond it were introduced from the same point, after having turned at right angles.
The village of Grange is four miles
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