lated. The artist in 1815 made two drawings of this place, one from the margin of the lake in which the green chimneys are principal, but the others are seen-a rugged wall and stones bordering the lake compose the fore-ground, and the building has for its neighbours a grove of ancient sycamores, reflected in the crystal mirrour at their feet above this assemblage see the Carrs and the Man-Mountain, which close this scene in lines of superior beauty.

The other view is from the south-west, and here the ivied pillars again impose themselves upon the eye, and perhaps too boldly-if not for a sketch, certainly for a picture: so chilling a mass of green would require for a temperate recreation of the eye, a most judicious, a most painter-like management; add to the objection able part a beautiful ash, or an oak, or both, in elevation a little higher than the eaves of the building, and the subject will be greatly improved by the opportunity given of conjoining, and to any given extent, the light on the trees with that on the house. To trees any natural hue may be given; but those trees ought always to be such in colour as will most happily conduce to the general harmony of the picture.

A peep of the lake on the right, in a succes sion of pretty bays, carries the eye nearly to its head-trees accompany the mouldering fabric, and the fells of Yewdale are an interesting background to the whole.

The slate which is dug from the bowels

of the mountains of Coniston, is laid up boated to the foot of the lake.

here till

It is about a mile from the bridge near Coniston church to the inn at Coniston Water-head; the road is flat but pleasant, except the bounding prospect in front, and on the right; this view is of the hills, stretching from the head to the foot of the lake on the eastern side, which from their lack of varied summit, is less interesting than any other in the whole circumference of the valley-pasture and meadow grounds, in the highest state of cultivation, extend from the road on the right on an even surface to the lake

on the left, there is likewise a chain of cultivation, accompanying the traveller all the way to the inn, above which diversified slopes of green are sometimes exchanged for massy woods, and groups, and single trees, which are scatterea about in wild but picturesque confusion.

Above these pretty patches, in rugged grandeur arise the heights of Yewdale. Thwaite, about half way between the church and the inn, on the left, reposes under the brow of a venerable wood; it was the residence of the late David Kirkby, Esq., the proprietor: the road soon reaches the lake, and another slate quaythe inn is here a good object, the hills about it, though not high, are pleasantly intersected, and the lake, the inn, and the hills, will entertain the traveller till exchanged for the comforts of interior accommodation.

But to return to Lowick Bridge, in order to

conduct the tourist up the eastern side of Con iston-water.

Mr. West's description of the lake from his first station is good, but his descriptions, like many others, though beautiful, are not those of an artist, as containing words inadmissible in a painter's vocabulary-poetic licence is likewise a great friend to closet works, by the agency of which rocks are made to overhang their bases, and terrify the traveller, instead of modestly receding from him-poets are, however, more tender with their distances than mere descriptionists, who sometimes represent as boldly as if they were tangible objects in remote aerial harmony.

Mr. West says, "a little above the village of Nibthwaite, the lake opens in full view. From the rock, on the left of the road, you have a general prospect of the lake, upwards. This station is found by observing where you have a hanging rock over the road, on the east, and an ash tree on the west side of the road. On the opposite shore, to the left, and close by the water's edge, are some stripes of meadow and green ground, cut into small inclosures, with some dark coloured houses under aged yew trees. Two promontories project a great way into the lake, the broadest is finely terminated by steep rocks, and crowned with wood; and both are insulated when the lake is high. Upwards over a fine sheet of water, the lake is again intersected by a far-projecting promontory, that swells into two eminences, and betwixt them the lake is again caught, with some white houses at the

feet of the mountains. And more to the right, over another head-land, you catch a fourth view of the lake, twisting to the north-east. Almost opposite to this station, stands a house on the crown of a rock, covered with ancient trees, that has a most romantic appearance,"

The Coniston mountains are here in full glory, and though subject to many changes in a progress from the foot to the head of the lake, generally display themselves into lines of extraordinary beauty; but in this progress there are certain limits, within which these mountains exhibit distinct characters, and compose better not only with each other but with the materials arranged between them and the eye; of these one is between Nibthwaite and about a mile and a half northward-the second between Coniston Bank and half a mile to the south-and the third between Bank Ground and the head of the lake.

Within the first limits, the line of vision is towards the north-west, and diagonally across the lake-but within the two others at right angles to the lake, and the aspect either west or westward.

No. IX. Coniston Mater.

But from various points upon the road looking towards the north, the high lands at Waterhead and Yewdale, with the distant mountains. of Grasmere, Wytheburn, and Rydal, make excellent pictures, but of a character strikingly

different to those of the western mountains west and north, however, viewed together are a charming eyefull, but a range too extensive for landscape painting, the quantity given in the print being little more than a third of that range this view is from the road, about three quarters of a mile north of Nibthwaite.

No. III.

Man-Mountain on Coniston Water.

From certain points within the limits already mentioned, the lake, with-all its rare appendages, forms excellent pictures. Peel island and the adjacent promontory appear from the lower grounds, about the water's foot, as one grand projection from the main land. This view is from a point a little on the right of the road, about one mile from Nibthwaite. The water here is pleasantly embayed, and Peel island, beyond which little of the lake is seen, stretches boldly towards the western shore, beyond which green fields, rocks, woods, and scatterings of trees, harmoniously dilating into pretty elevations, are seen a few fishermen's cottages and farm houses give life to the scene; above which, on awful elevation, you see the Man-Mountain, or, as it is more frequently called, the Old Man, beyond which is the summit of the greater Carrs, which, with Enfoot on the right and Dove Crag on the left, are the principal features of this admirable range,