The fish of this lake are char, trout, perch, pike, and eel. Of the char there are two varieties, the case char, and the gelt char.

The greatest depth of the lake is, opposite to Ecclerigg-cragg, 222 feet. The fall from Newby-bridge, where the current of the lake becomes visible, to the high water-mark of the tide at Low-wood (distant two miles) is 105 feet. The bottom of the lake is therefore 117 feet below the high water-mark of the sea.

In Bowness there is nothing so remarkable as some remains of painted glass, in the east window of the church, that were brought from the abbey of Furness*.

From Bowness to Ambleside is six miles, along the side of the laket. On the top of

* "The present remains of this window show that it has contained very fine colouring in its former state. The arms of France and England quartered, are well preserved at the top of the window. The design is a Crucifixion, in figures as large as life. By the hands, feet, and parts remaining, it seems to have been of singular beauty. On the dexter side of the crucifixion, is St. George slaying the Dragon; on the sinister, the Virgin Mary;-an uncouth assemblage. Beneath, are the figures of a knight and his lady kneeling, before whom are a group of kneeling monks, over whose heads are wrote W. Hartley, Tho. Honton, and other names, by the breaking of the glass rendered not legible."--Hutchinson's Excursion.

+ The Low-Wood Inn, about two miles short of Ambleside, will attract the Tourist's notice. No other Inn in his

an eminence, a little behind Rayrig§, there is a fine view of the northern extremity of the lake. As you proceed along the banks, every step has importance, and the prospect becomes more and more august, exhibiting much variety of Appennine grandeur. Langdalepikes, that guard the pass into Borrowdale on this side the Yoak, and spiral Hill-bell; the overhanging erags of lofty Rainsbarrow; the broken ridge of Redscrees, Fairfield, and Scrubby-crag (on whose precipitous front the eagle builds his nest, secure from the envious shepherds of the vale) with a chaos of other nameless mountains, are all in sight.

route has so fine a view of a Lake, and the natural beauties of which he is in quest. A small cannon is kept here to gratify the curious with those remarkable reverberations of sound, which follow the report of a gun, &c. in these singular vales, and of which, a general description is given in the subsequent lines:The cannon's roar

Bursts from the bosom of the hollow shore.
The dire explosion the whole concave fills,
And shakes the firm foundation of the hills,

Now pausing deep, now bellowing from afar,
Now rages near the elemental war;
Aifrighted echo opens all her cells,

With gather'd strength the posting clamour swells,
Check'd or impell'd, and varying in its course,
It slumbers, now awakes with double force,
Searching the strait, the crooked hill and dale,
Sinks in the breeze, or rises in the gale;
Chorus of earth and sky! the mountains sing,
And heaven's own thunders thro' the vallies ring.
Killarney. X.

This place is said to have some resemblance of Ferney, on the lake of Geneva, the seat of the late celebrated Voltaire.

Just at the head of Windermere, and a little short of Ambleside, turn down a byeroad to the left, and see the vestige of a Roman station. It lies in a meadow, on a level with the lake, and, as supposed, was called the Dictis, where a part of the cohort Nerviorum Dictentium was stationed. It is placed near the meetings of all the roads from Penrith, Keswick, Ravenglass, Furness, and Kendal, which it commanded, and was accessible only on one side.

AMBLESIDE*.

Here nothing at present is found of all that Camden mentions of this place. So swift is

*(Amboglana, Notit. Imper. Dictis. Horsley).-Though the author has not mentioned the circumstance, it is supposed that the natural beauties of this part of the country are equal in variety and perfection to any to be seen in the tour, and that the lover of landscape in viewing many an undescribed scene, would be highly gratified and delighted. But it is judged best not to descend to particulars. Let the admirer of rural nature please himself in their discovery as well as examination

Also, if the tourist love mountainous prospects, he may meet with one, in about a three hours' ride from this place, that will not fail to please him. It is on Low-pike, in Rydalpark, from whence may be seen many of the lakes, as Rydalwater, Grasmere-water, Windermere-water, Blencow-tarn, Elter-water, Esthwaite-water, and Coniston-water, also the Isle of Walney, Pile of Foudry, the whole of Duddon, Ulverston, Lancaster, and Millthorp sands; the mountain Ingleborough, and at an opening between two hills, the hideous rocks in Borrowdale. A further walk of about an

time in destroying the last remains of ancient magnificence! Roman coins and arms have been frequently found here; and, in forming the turnpike-road through Rydal, an urn was lately taken up, which contained ashes and other Roman remains, and serves to prove that the tract of the ancient road laid that way.

In mountainous countries, cascades, waterfalls, and cataracts, are frequent, but only to be seen in high perfection when in full torrent, and that is in wet weather, or soon after it. About a mile above Ambleside, there is, in a place called the Groves, a cascade, that, though the season should be dry,

hour will give a view of Skiddaw, Helvellyn, Ulls-water, the Vale of St. John, and other parts of Cumberland.—This mountainous excursion over, the following lines may not unaptly be introduced to the reader's notice.

Descending now from Æther's pure domain,
By fancy borne to range the nether plain,
Behold all-winning novelty display'd
Along the vale, the mountain, and the shade,
The scenes but late diminutive, resume
Their native grandeur, and their wonted bloom.
The woods expand their umbrage o'er the deep,
And with ambitious aim ascend the steep,
Stage above stage, their vig'rous arms invade,
The tallest cliffs, and wrap them in the shade.
Each in its own pre-eminence regains
The high dominion of the subject plains
Smiling beneath, such smiles the people wear,
Happy in some paternal monarch's care.

Killarney.

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merits a visit, on account of its singular beauty, and distinguished features". It is the most curious you will see in the course of the tour. The stream here, though the water be low, is much divided, and broken by a variety of pointed dark rocks; after this, collecting itself into one torrent, it is precipitated with a horrid rushing noise, into a dark gulph, unfathomable to the eye; and then, after rising in foam, it is once more dashed with a thundering noise headlong down a steep craggy channel till it joins the Rothay, below Ambleside. The parts of this cataract are noble. The deep dark hue of the rocks, in the gloomy bosom of a narrow glen, just visible by day, and the foaming water, tinged with a hue of green caught from the trees and shrubs that wave over the fall, render this scene highly awful and picturesque.

From Ambleside to Keswick, sixteen miles of excellent mountain road, furnishes much amusement to the traveller. If the season be rainy, or immediately after rain, all the possible variety of cascades, water-falls, and cataracts, are seen in this ride; some precipitating themselves from immense heights, others leaping and bounding from rock to

** This cascade is called Stock Gill Force.