button to main menu  Description of Sixty Studies, pp.28-29
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their contrast in form and colour, a beautiful appearance.
The scene which has been engraved for this work, is made on the margin of the stream, immediately under the usual stand; but from several other points the materials will be found to combine with an equal, if not superior interest, should parts be preferred to a general view.

  plate 16
  Pelter Bridge
No. 16.


PELTER BRIDGE, RYDAL.

This bridge is a mile from Ambleside, the fore-ground on the left is brought from the other side of the bridge, the drawing being made out of a flat field on the Loughrigg side of the river Rothay - the houses are the beginning of the little village of Rydal, on the road from Ambleside to Keswick.
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The mountain over the lesser arch of the bridge is Nab Scar, from a certain point of which there is, to a great extent of distance, an exquisite and almost circular view of the country, which is composed of mountains, lakes, rivers, woods, and buildings; and this view, in its kind, is perhaps more interesting than can be furnished by the domains of Rydal from any other summit.

  plate 17
  Rydal
No. 17.


COTTAGE AT RYDAL.

Part of the building here presented is given in the preceding print, and this view is higher on the river than the bridge, from which it is not one hundred yards; the townships of Rydal and Ambleside divide on the top of the mountain, the pointed summits of which are the high and low pikes. Though this and the former view are
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