A Concise Description of the English Lakes, and Adjacent Mountains: With General Directions to TouristsKeswick, Simpkin, and Marshall, 1834 - 184 páginas |
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Abbey Ambleside appears ascent Barrow Bassenthwaite Lake beautiful beck Black Combe black-lead boat Borrowdale Bowfell Bowness Buttermere Calder Bridge called Castle Cockermouth colour Coniston Crag crossing Crummock Lake Cumberland dale Derwent Lake Derwentwater distance Duddon Dunmail Raise elevation Ennerdale Eskdale excursion feet foot formed Gable Gill Grange Grasmere Grasmoor Grisedale Grisedale Pike ground Hause Hawes Water Hawkshead height Helvellyn islands Isle Kendal Kentmere Keswick Lancashire Lancaster Langdale Pikes limestone lofty Loughrigg Fell Low Wood Lowdore Lowes Water Mardale miles from Keswick Milnthorp mountains nearly Newlands passing Patterdale Penrith Pooley Bridge prospect Red Pike ridge rises river road rock rocky Rydal Saddleback Scale Force Scale Hill Scawfell scenery Seathwaite seen Shap sienite Skelwith Skiddaw slate slaty station steep Stickle stream summit surface Tarn thence Thirlmere thwaite tourists trout Ullswater Ulverston vale valley visited Wasdale Head Wast Water waterfall western side Westmorland Windermere Wythburn
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Página 82 - Daughters. They consist of a circle, 350 yards in circumference, formed of sixty-seven stones, some of them ten feet high. Seventeen paces from the southern side of the circle stands Long Meg, a square unhewn column of red freestone, fifteen feet in circumference, and eighteen feet high.
Página 130 - Not a single red tile, no flaring gentleman's house or garden walls, break in upon the repose of this little unsuspected paradise ; but all is peace, rusticity, and happy poverty in its neatest and most becoming attire.
Página 176 - Derwentwater, in the neighbourhood of Lodore, its size being considerably larger than usual. For a few inches in depth it is composed of a clayey matter, apparently deposited by the water in which the growing plants have fixed their roots. The rest is a mass of decayed vegetable matter, forming a stratum of loose peat-earth about six feet in thickness, which rises from a stratum of fine soft clay. A considerable quantity of air is contained in the body of the island, and may be discharged by probing...
Página 175 - It has been said to make its appearance once in seven years, but this is quite uncertain; it generally rises after an interval of a few years, and towards the conclusion of a warm summer. Its figure and dimensions are variable; it has sometimes contained about half an acre of ground, at other times only a few perches: but...
Página 170 - ... that whenever two volumes of air of different temperatures, are mixed together, each being previously saturated with vapour, a precipitation of a portion of vapour must ensue, in consequence of the mean temperature not being able to support the mean quantity of vapour. ".'. This...
Página 156 - The greatest bulk of these mountain rocks have been commonly included under the general appellation of slate; although many of them shew no disposition to the slaty cleavage. They may be classed in three principal divisions. Of these divisions, the FIRST or lowest in the series, forms Skiddaw, Saddleback, Grasmoor, and Grisedale Pike, with the mountains of Thornthwaite and Newlands ; it extends across Crummock Lake, and by the foot of Ennerdale as far as Dent Hill ; and after being lost for several...
Página 26 - LAKE is about two miles and a half in length, and three quarters of a mile in breadth. It is more difficult to obtain a good view of this, than any other lake.
Página 181 - Borrowdale, with the appurtenances of what nature or kind soever, cxcepted and reserved unto the said William Whitmore and Jonas Verdon, their heirs and assigns, all those wad-holes, and wad, commonly called blackcawke, within the commons of Seatoller, or elsewhere within the commons and wastes of the manor of Borrowdale aforesaid, with liberty to dig, work, and carry the same, and other their appurtenances whatsoever.
Página 183 - To prevent the depredations of intruders, it has sometimes been necessary to keep a strong guard upon the place; and for its better protection, an Act of Parliament was passed 25th Geo. 2d. cap.
Página 169 - METEOROLOGY. BESIDES the permanent beauties of a country diversified by hills and dales, mountains and lakes, there are transient subjects capable of arresting the attention of the contemplative observer ; amongst which are, — the mists or fogs — forming over the surface of lakes — floating along the sides of hills — or collected into clouds, hovering upon the summits of mountains.