Site 1830 LEIGH'S GUIDE ΤΟ ΤΗΣ LAKES AND MOUNTAINS OF CUMBERLAND, WESTMORELAND, AND LANCASHIRE. ILLUSTRATED WITH A MAP OF THE COUNTRY, AND MAPS OF WINDERMERE, "In truth, a more pleasing Tour than these Lakes hold out to men of leisure and curiosity, cannot be devised. We penetrate the Glaciers, traverse the Rhone and the Rhine, whilst our domestic lakes of Ullswater, Keswick, and Windermere, exhibit scenes in so sublime a style,—with such beautiful colourings of rock, wood, and water,-backed with so tremendous a disposition of mountains, that if they do not fairly take the lead of all the views of Europe, yet they are indisputably such as no English traveller should leave behind him." CUMBERLAND'S DEDICATION TO ROMNEY. "As my object is to reconcile a Briton to the scenery of his own country, though not at the expense of truth, I am not afraid of asserting that, in many points of view, our Lakes, also, are much more interesting than those of the Alps." WORDSWORTH. |