In Penrith there is an endowed charity school for boys, and another for girls; besides a promising national school. (a recent institution), founded on the plan of Dr. Bell. Penrith can also boast of a circulating library.

Mr. Hutchinson says, "The women of this country are remarkably beautiful, with intelligent looks, cloathed in modesty; and politeness united with simplicity of manners: perhaps these ladies owe their beauty to their constant beverage of milk. How different such looks to the distortedly, unintelligent, barbarian, inebriated stare of the people of large towns, where the unhappy multitude have been driven to misery and want, to sedition and

treason!

Having spoken at some length cencerning Ambleside and Penrith, the two towns from which the lake of Ulls Water is most conveniently visited, it will be proper, next to describe the scenery lying between those towns.

The carriage roads to Ulls Water from Low Wood and Ambleside have already been described to the guide post at the summit of the mountain pass on Kirkstone; to which as has been heretofore remarked, a foot path might be made by the side of Stock Gill, which, if properly executed would be one of the most alluring pedestrian trips in the north of England, and would entirely relieve the carriage party from the tedious and not very interesting mountain ascent from Ambleside. For those who prefer travelling on foot from Ambleside to

Patterdale, there is a pleasant way by the Low, Middle, and High Groves, meeting the Troutbeck road about half a mile short of the guide post.

From the guide post, having that part of Scandale Fell, called Red Screes, on the left, and on the right Colddale Fell, the road is flat for a short distance, at the end of which, on the left, Kirkstone, a large detached mass of rock, having a ridged top like the roof of a

house appears. On descending from Kirk

stone, a new and interesting scene is presented through a narrow vista, with a pretty peep at Brother Water and the swelling heights of Ulls Water in the distance. About five hundred yards on this descent is

Brother Water.

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This view is taken from the road on the immediate borders of which, the mountains rise to a great height. A part of Scandale Fell is on the left, with bold projecting rocks hanging on its side, and on the right Colddale Fell, in steep shiverings of stone; between these side screens in a deep bottom, but in the happiest point of view is seen Brother Water, with pretty stripings of inclosure at each end, and the wood lands at Hartshope Hall, rising from it: in distance is Place Fell, and other mountains bounding Ulls Water.

From this place, the lake is alternately seen and lost all the way to the bottom of the hill,

where a retrospect is gained upon a projection of Scandale Fell, on the conical summit of which is a pike called Kirkstone Dodd. The opening on the left is on a scene of sublimity, in which Dove Crag, a huge mass of rock is a grand and imposing feature.

Brother Water is between six and seven miles from Ambleside. The views round it are sublime; the vale is fertile and cloathed with wood, which diminishes inquantity as it ascends the mountains, and is generally in excellent distribution. The road from Ambleside to Patterdale, which lies at the head of Ulls Water, runs close to Brother Water, and the mountain on the right, towers from it in a very bold style. At Brother Water, the valley is

scarcely half a mile across, and the western side is bounded by a steep woody hill.

The principal feeders of Brother Water are Kirkstone Beck, and thatwhich rises under Dove Crag. Kirkstone Beck rumbles over a furrowed channel in a great variety of beautiful little water falls on the traveller's right and left as he winds down the road to the valley. That under Dove Crag, (a stupendous rock, three miles west of Brother Water), after a steep descent over huge craggy fragments, serpentizes sweetly down the vale, amidst rich assemblages of beautiful trees, and by Hartshope Hall to Brother Water.

Hartshope Hall is a very ancient building, and somewhat picturesque, particularly when

combined with the neighbouring trees and mountains: from Hartshope Hall there is a road to Patterdale, meeting the Ambleside road at Cow Bridge; this road is on the banks of the little lake and the river issuing out of it, and through a wood of fine oaks between the intricate and romantic mazes of which the mountains of Hartshope rise in superior grandeur.

A little beyond Brother Water, the road direct from Ambleside to Ulls Water, turns at right angles down the meadows, meeting that from Hartshope Hall at Cow Bridge, before mentioned; from Cow Bridge to the inn at Patterdale, it winds pleasantly amongst groves of trees, affording now and then a glimpse at the surrounding country. In wet weather, the stream proceeding from Angle Tarn, in a water fall, tumbling down a rugged bed on the side of Place Fell, is an amusing object from this road.

Low Hartshope, Hays Water, and Angle Tarn.

At the right angular turn above mentioned, there is, under Place Fell, another road to the inn at Patterdale, and one on the right leading to Low Hartshope, a picturesque village, containing about a dozen houses standing on each side of a river which passes from the mountain tarn called Hays Water, which is about a mile and a half east of Hartshope; and for its ele

vated situation, is considered a large lake. Its borders are steep, but not rugged. High Street stands at its head. Angle Tarn lies upon the top of the south end of Place Fell, and though of a tolerable size, it is less than Hays Water; these tarns abound in trout of exquisite flavour; but those of Angle Tarn are said to be the most delicious. The outlet to Angle Tarn is down the steep side of Place Fell, between Low Hartshope and Ulls Water.

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The river issuing out of Hays Water is cipitated through a steep and craggy channel: in its progress it unites with that which runs out of Brother Water, a little below the village of Hartshope.

Deepdale.

Between Cow Bridge and the inn at Patterdale, the grand and romantic Deepdale opens on the left. From the road to Wall End (the highest house in the dale), it is highly cultivated, and decorated with an abundance of wood. Having gained the common, a little above Wall End, the retrospect on Place Fell is sublime. All the wild and uncultivated bottom above Wall End is inclosed by steep and craggy heights.

Road from Low Hartshope under Place Fell to the Enn at Patterdale.

The road beneath Place Fell, leaving the principal one near the village of Hartshope