the foot path from Glen Coin to Patterdale joins the public road near that tree.

By the side of the hill above this place, is a building called the Moss House, from which there is a Claude like view towards the foot of Ulls Water. Decorated with trees, most pictruesque in their appearance, from the rocky top, the road descends to the lake, having in distance the mountains of Hartshope, as seen between Place Fell and Blaize Fell.

On the

right, at the bottom of the hill, is a most stately and elegant assemblage of birch trees, well deserving the artist's attention; indeed, the trees in this neighbourhood have generally a higher relish of the painter like, than those of any other district known to the writer.

The road having been cut through, now passes under that magnificent rock called Stybarrow Crag, which rises steeply out of the water. Before the safeguard wall was built, it was, (as it is still from many points), a grand object; the faces of this rock are broad and beautifully coloured, and the trees start from the rugged surface of the mountain, with all the wildness the bold pencil of a Salvator could impart.

From Stybarrow Crag the road is through a grove of tall trees to the summer seat of the Rev. Henry Askew, which is a tasteful erection, and finely situated for a view of the lake and mountains; for the enjoyment of aquatic excursions, and for elevated ramblings. It is

placed on the border of the lake at the foot of a rocky and pleasantly wooded valley, called Glenridden, with a river running through it, on which there are some beautiful cascades, supplied from Kepple Cove Tarn and Red Tarn, two little lakes not much below the summit of Helvellyn.

* "Glenridden is from the Scotch word Glen, which signifies a gill or hollow, and Ridden, the name of the river which runs there with a precipitate course to Ulls Water."

From Mr. Askew's, the road passes a house which was formerly an inn, and under the swelling wooded eminence called Hall Bank, and by Patterdale Hall and Patterdale Church to the present inn. All this road, from Mr. Askew's house, which is about a mile and a half, is replete with charms, and having crossed the bridge, the Grisedale aspect is at once sublime and beautiful.

Patterdale Hall, the seat of John Mounsey, Esq., is a modern building, erected on the site of a picturesque old one, formerly called, by way of distinction, the Palace of Patterdale. It is matter of regret, that these ancient habi. tations should be thus destroyed; for as moun

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* Burns, page 409, vol. 1.

tain proprietors have generally great choice of situation, the new houses ought to be placed at convenient distances from the old ones, which, kept in repair, might be inhabited as farming houses, or under the dilapidations of time be left to moulder into rich and peculiar specimens of antiquated beauty.

In the church-yard is a yew tree, which, interesting in ruin, is said formerly to have shaded considerably more ground than it does at present, which is probable from its trunk being somewhat disporportioned to its impending branches: this tree is No. 58 of the large etchings, and the tree and the church No. 40 of the seventy-eight etchings.

Travellers from the north, east, south, and west, have now been conducted over classic ground from Ambleside and Penrith to the

Enn at Patterdale.

But to those travellers some of the finest pages in the book of nature are yet to be unfolded.

Though there is something good in every part of Ulls Water, yet the finest scenes lie between Lyulph's Tower and the inn at Patterdale, and the best way of seeing this desirable part is to take a boat at the head of the lake,