Station-House.

The Station-house stands upon a hill above the Ferry. It was built by Mr. Braithwaite, from whom it was purchased by Mr. Curwen. It is a short but pleasant walk to it from the Ferry-house. An aged female, inhabiting a pretty cottage within the inclosure surrounding the Station, will conduct the party by an excellent road to the building: this road is graced on each hand by oak, ash, and birch trees, springing from the sides and out of the fissures of picturesque rocks; to these trees have been added hollies, laurels, and other evergreens, with an abundance of garden and field flowers, all filling the eye with a most pleasing assemblage of nature and art. On this ascent the eye is not allowed to roam beyond the enclosing wall, for this is a local sort of beauty, and cannot come in composition with any of its neigh bouring scenes, or with the distant mountains.

The Station-house is two stories high: the lower story consists of dining and other rooms, but the upper is a tasteful drawing-room; from this drawing-room there are two fine views of the lake, that towards the Great Island is

No. Ten, Cnrwen Esland, on Windermere, from the Station.

This view is generally considered as equal in its kind to any other on the lakes, for it has every essential for a beautiful landscape; bold foreground, a fine transparent sheet of water, graced with islands, rich woods, and wavy mountains, It is an assemblage almost invariably grateful to the eye of the stranger, and all lovers of the beautiful in nature return to it with insatiable delight, but though so exquisite in nature, it is not easy of management in art.

The mountains being at a great distance from. the spectator, and the nature of the subject requiring for its back-ground an extensive range, those mountains have upon paper or canvas something of the mole-hill appearance, except upon a large scale: six feet length of canvas would give some adequate idea of the splendour of the scene.

All the principal islands, with the well-wooded Ferry-house, are discovered in this view, and give an extraordinary richness to it; the lands. on the opposite shores gracefully intersecting each other, and abundantly decorated with woods, are in unison with the islands. Cultivation is extended beyond the margin of the lake high into Troutbeck and Applethwaite, and the same is closed at many miles distance

by high mountains-Hill Bell and High Street are the principal.

Curwen Island is the leading feature on the water scenery, and the house is here a grand principal.

On the eastern shore, and near its banks, comfortably situate, stands New Calgarth: Rayrigg appears over the end of the Great Island; and between those seats, Old Calgarth. The pleasant village of Bowness and Old England, placed by the side of the lake, are seen immediately over the Ferry-house, and Elleray beyond the northern point of Crow Holm.

Furney Green and Bellefield are here cheerful objects, but they do not assist in the above composition, nor in

No. Eleven. Foot of Windermere, from the Station.

This view is looking towards the foot of the lake, from a rich fore-ground of rocks and trees.

All the coast from the Station on the western side, and from Storrs Hall on the eastern side, to the foot of the lake, is beautifully embay ed, particularly the western coast; several promontories stretching far into the water. These promontories are ornamented with a great variety of fine wood, and the island called Ling Holme is here a pretty object.

Rawlinson's Nab is the principal of these promontories.

Storrs Hall, on the eastern side, appears charmingly reposed amongst its woods: from Storrs Hall a fine promontory juts far into the water, at the end of which is seen the summer house.

On each side of the lake sweeping lines ascend into hills of agreeable elevation; of these heights Gummers How, rising above Town-head and Fell-foot, is the principal-it is here a beautiful line.

On one of these hills stands the summer house at Finsthwaite, built by Mr. King, from which the country almost imperceptibly recedes into extreme distance and flatness.

No. Twelve. Windermere from Low
Wray.

The field from which this view is taken lies between Low Wray and the lake, and exhibits a fine view of the Rydal mountains.

A rich foliage is the prevailing character of the fore-ground scenery about Low Wray.

The lake appears in a variety of bays, formed by the rocky promontories shooting from the lands at Brathay.

Brathay Hall on the left, and Croft Lodge, which is under the rocky steeps of Loughrigg fell, are seen embowered in trees; from the sides of these steeps to the buildings, and from the buildings to the craggy margin of the lake, the woods appear in an agreeable diversity.

From the borders of the lake at Water-head to the woods at Rydal, it is one rich scene of waving enclosures and luxuriant scatterings of trees. The top of Nab Scar, which is here seen over the crags of Loughrigg, is lowered in an easy line to the woods at Rydal, from which other pleasant lines ascend to the High and the Low Pikes. Beyond this elegant sweep appears Rydal-head swelling above other aspiring summits, and closing the scene in a style of beautiful sublimity.

"This lake is in some places of a wonderful depth, and a clear pebbly bottom; breeding good store of fish, as eels, trouts (both common and grey trouts), pikes, bass or perch, skellies, and particularly char, which is a fish generally about nine inches long, the rareness of which fish occasions many pots of chars to be sent to London and other places yearly, as presents.

"Sir Daniel Fleming says, there are no chars to be found save only in this lake and in Coningston Water. Some other waters (he says) pretend to have chars in them, as Buttermere, in Cumberland, and Ulleswater (which is between Westmorland and Cumberland), but these are generally esteemed by knowing persons to