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From Ambleside we set out for Bowness, to take a view of the
lake. Part of the road we had traversed, the day before,
from Kendal; and were a second time amused by the woody
landscape it afforded: and it's sudden, interrupted openings
to the lake, before the whole burst of that magnificent
scene was presented.- From the higher grounds, above
Bowness, we had an elevated view of it's whole extent.
Windermere, or Winander-water, as it is sometimes called,
extends from north to south, about twelve or fourteen miles.
In breadth it rarely exceeds two; and is seldom narrower
than one. The southern end winds a little towards the west.
The northern, and western coasts are wild, and mountainous -
the eastern, and southern are more depressed; in
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