Lonsdale Magazine, 1820, vol.1
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Lonsdale Magazine, 1820, vol.1 p.32
[splen]didly embowered, see Rydal Hall and Rydal Mount, with the whole village of Rydal, and at its feet the Rothay, murmuring over a rugged channel, which in many sweet meanderings, is seen nearly all the way from Rydal to its junction with the Lake. The Lake, from this place, appears in lines of singular beauty, all the way from Water Head to the south of Curwen's Island. Under the influence of a fine etherial medium, the painter's eye in high pleasure rolling may glance on Elleray; on Bowness; on the greater and lesser Islands; and on the far distant country southward." Another excursion, and perhaps the richest in grandeur, is that to Ivy Crag. "This is the finest bird's-eye view exhibited from Loughrigg Fell. An instantaneous burst upon a most fascinating assemblage of every sort of requisite, for every description of landscape. Rocks and rocky mountains in every distance, from tangibility, to those of thirty or forty miles from the eye. Lakes environed by the sweetest meadows and pasture, richly decorated with woods in heavenly scatterings, and backed by sublime mountains or distant flats of blue." Among a number of pther agreeable rides, in which we are accompanied by our Guide is one to Wansfell Pike. From this we have an extensive view of Staveley, Applethwaite, Troutbeck, with Ingleborough holding up his blue bead (sic) in the distant horizon. A fine view of Windermere from the Low Wood to its foot. "Over this exquisite union of land and water, amidst their azure neighbours, is seen the far distant town of Lancaster, with Clougha Pike, five miles from it; and in clouded obscurity, Milnthorpe, Lancaster, and Leven's Sands. In extreme distance the coast of Low Furness, even as far as Peel castle, the swelling ground about Ulverston, and all the tasteless tops of hills, to the better formed Black Comb, in Cumberland, and Walna Scar, in Seathwaite." Our Author next escorts us to Rydal Water-falls, "which present to the eye what might pass for a fairy vision: the rocks in sullen grandeur, shine through the pellucid medium which intervenes, while the white foam produced by the dashing waters which lave their feet, sparkles in its milky dancing with exhilarating lustre." A little walk to the Nook End Bridge, Sweden Bridge, Fairfield, and the Gale, closes the Ambleside excursions; after which we are led for grander views and sublimer scenes, to the gloomy Lake of Ullswater. In the preceding pages, we have only slightly sketched the outline of those scenes which he fills up with so much care; the extracts however will give the reader a tolerable idea of his usual style: but the minuteness with which he directs the Tourist to the several stands, and the accuracy with which he describes the objects which compose the different landscapes, are reserved for another opportunity. In our next number we shall resume the pleasing amusement of following so well informed a Tourist through this region of Lakes - this garden of mountains. (To be continued.) |
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