mixture of singular fertility and beauty. Rydal Hall is from the road an excellent object, and the ravages of time have softened down its whiteness and that of the garden wall into an almost harmonious feeling with the neighbouring objects: the Rothay sparkles over the flat, on the banks of which and under rocky Loughrigg, stand the pretty cottages before mentioned, and beyond them Pelter Bridge: the Rydal mountains finish the scene in great grandeur.

At the end of the wood, the path crosses a gate, and at the first turn on the left, the back prospect, for its sublimity, deserves attention. All the way from the gate, the road to the first sight of Loughrigg Tarn, is over the common, and sees in its progress the Coniston mountains in front, and Windermere on the left. Having arrived at a wall, Loughrigg Tarn will soon appear, but most advantageously by keeping at some yards above the road.

No. Seventeen.

Loughrigg Carn.

This is not a view of the first presentation of the lake, but of one about a hundred yards nearer to it.

This little unfrequented paradise is encompassed by meadow ground, most charmingly cloathed in wood, but the views from the road,

the fields, or the side of the hill, all the way from the first sight of the lake to the descent of the road by which the whole is gradually lost, are replete with facinations: foregrounds are indicated from the fields by well grown trees, and by rocks on the right: Lingmire, Langdale Pikes and Bow Fell, add to this singularly beautiful scene a sublime back ground.

The road skirts the borders of this little lake, and the pikes appear no where in finer lines, or in a more appropriate assemblage with other objects, than when seen over it, and boreas napping will allow their beauties to be doubled by reflection. A little below the lake two houses are passed called the How.

From the How, through a narrow tangled lane, it is a short distance to the road leading from Skelwith Bridge to Grasmere; from this junction to its union with that from Langdale Chapel, it is scarcely half a mile; the remainder of the way by the western side of Grasmere and Rydal waters to Ambleside, has already been described.

Loughrigg Tarn, Elter Water, and Grasmere

By the Little Langdale road, a carriage ride of about ten miles round Loughrigg Fell, is often taken by strangers, and it is a pleasant excursion.

Pass the Little Langdale road, already described, to the guide post, two miles from Am

bleside, and then turn on the right by the Ellers and Tarn Foot; but Loughrigg Tarn, either as a Claude or Gasper, has few charms from any part of this road; it has, however, some little relish of Salvator on looking over it between Tarn Foot and Loughrigg Fold: but such as wish to see Loughrigg Tarn to advantage, may alight from their carriages at Tarn Foot, and by walking less than a mile, arrive at the hill, when on the approach from Ambleside, some of its best features are lost. From this place the party may trace the road to its first sight of the lake, or to any nearer stand, at pleasure. He may then retrace his steps part of the way, and pass by the lake and the How, as described in the last excursion, and enter the Skelwith and Grasmere road at a house called Scroggs, where he will meet his carriage; or by returning to the carriage at Tarn Foot, skirt Little Loughrigg to a few houses called Loughrigg Fold, from which place, by a westward ascent, the party may, (on foot only,) soon see the exquisite views of Elter Water beforementioned. Beyond Loughrigg Fold the Great Langdale road deviates on the left, and the one pursued passes a neat farm-house called the Oaks, the property of Mr. John Barrow; and the next house, on the right, is Scroggs, just mentioned, from which, by West's Station, Tail End and Grasmere Church, return to Ambleside.

As the grand Langdale tour cannot be taken in a four wheeled carriage, such as object to carts may extend their line by Langdale Chapel to the Thrang Crag slate quarries, or to Dun