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other fish. Trout of thirty pounds weight and upwards, are said
to be taken in it.
The water of the lake is very clear, but has nothing of the
transparency of Derwent, and is inferior to Buttermere and
Cromack-water also in this respect. The stones in the bottom, and
along the shores, are coated with mud.
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Mr. Gray viewed this lake in the same manner as that at Keswick,
proceeding along its banks, and facing the mountains, judging
that the idea of magnitude and magnificence were thereby
increased, and the whole set off with every advantage of
foreground. But this lake viewed from any height, except
Dunmallet, also loses much of its dignity, as a lake, from the
number of its flexures, and jutting out of promontories; it
nevertheless retains the appearance of a magnificent river
ingulphed in rocks.
The bold winding hills, the intersecting mountains, the pyramidal
cliffs, the bulging, broken, rugged rocks, the hanging woods, and
the tumbling, roaring cataracts, are parts of the sublimer scenes
presented in this surprising vale. The cultivated spots wave
upward from the water in beautiful slopes, intersected by hedges,
decorated with trees, in the most pleasing manner; mansions,
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