Lonsdale Magazine, 1820, vol.1
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Lonsdale Magazine, 1820, vol.1 p.74
GREEN'S GUIDE The Tourist's new Guide, containing a description of the Lakes, Mountains, and Scenery, in Cumberland, Westmorland, and Lancashire, etc. etc. - Continued from page 32.It should be remembered that there are no respectable villages on the banks of Ulls Water, like those of Keswick and Ambleside, capable of accommodating that great influx of genteel company which crowds to the Lakes during the summer months. The most eligible plan therefore of surveying this lake is by one long excursion, similar to that already described round Windermere. The first station on Ulls Water, that Mr. Green notices, is the Inn at Patterdale. About seven miles on the road to this inn, from Ambleside, is Brother Water. "The views round it are sublime; the vale is fertile and clothed with wood, which diminishes in quantity as it ascends the mountains, and is generally in excellent distribution." Near Brother Water, there are several other beauties which will be more easily viewed in a journey from Ambleside to Patterdale, than from any particular station - Low Hartsope, a little picturesque village, Angle Tarn, and Hays Water. "In wet weather the stream proceeding out of Angle Tarn, in a waterfall tumbling down a rugged bed on the side of Place Fell, is an amusing object from the road." Among these hills, streams, and water falls, woods, groves, villages, and farm houses, our author points out a number of beautiful scenes, which arrest the eye in a journey from Ambleside to Patterdale. Having conducted the traveller within about two hundred yards of the inn, he observes; "From this road, looking forward upon Ulls Water, on the left into Deepdale, or by turning round upon Hartsope, the scenes are severally replete with the richest assemblages in nature. A portion of Ulls Water, with two of its islands encircled with a cultivated flat, borders the transparent Goldrill. This flat is succeeded by the sweetest undulations, over which, woods, in some places almost approaching to redundancy, dilate the supassing beauty. Farm houses and cottages, and the church, with Mr. Askew's house on the edge of the Lake at Glenridden, give animation to this splendid scene, which is farther enlivened by the delightful meanderings of the river Eamont, the whole being as it were protected by the eternal guardians of nature, stupendous mountains, which viewed in cotrast with the enchanting variety of the scene below, while the mind expands with admiration, fail not to inspire a grateful feeling of religious awe, and to lead the aspiring thought to their Creator - to 'HIM Who light himself, in uncreated light Dwells awfully retired from human eye And angel's purer ken!" The Inn at Patterdale is properly termed an inferior station, as no post horses are kept there; but boats may be procured for navigating the Lake. "In fine weather," Mr. Green says, "this is a charming aquatic movement." |
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