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Page 8:-
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Ullswater
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ULLSWATER
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depth
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Ranks next in point of size, being nine miles long, but rather
wanting in breadth: yet, on account of its winding form, the
disproportion is not so much observed. It has the greatest
average depth of any of the lakes, being in many places from 20
to 35 fathoms. The country about its foot is rather tame; but its
head is situated among some of the most majestic mountains, which
are intersected by several glens or small vallies; and their
sides embellished with a variety of native wood and rock scenery.
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islands
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Three rocky islets ornament the upper reach of the lake; they are
called Cherry-Holm, Wall-Holm, and House-Holm; the last of which,
though houseless, is a fine station for viewing the surrounding
scenery.- This lake abounds with trout which are sometimes caught
of very large size; here are also some char, but they are neither
numerous nor of the best quality. Large shoals of a peculiar kind
of fish are met with, called here the skelly; and great
quantities of eels are taken in the river Eamont, below Pooley
Bridge, as they migrate from the lake in autumn. At the foot of
the lake, the water seems to be embanked by a conglomerated mass
of pebbles; the same composition forms the finely wooded hill
called Dunmallet, which stands like a centinel to guard the pass.
The borders of the lake are ornamented with several handsome
villas. Ewesmere hill on the Westmorland side commands de-
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-- "Dunmallet" -- Dunmallard Hill
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-- Eamont, River
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-- "House Holm" -- Norfolk Island
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-- "Ullswater" -- Ullswater
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