Michael Knott, Esq. Water-head House has recently been much enlarged, and this new erection, when completed, will be a splendid addition to the mansion: it is situate upon a fine elevation above the valley, and commands a charming view of the lake with its pretty marginal appendages. From the house and circumjacent grounds the Man Mountain is a grand and interesting object.

From Mr. Knott's, the road is almost uniformly steep to its junction with that direct from Ulverston to Ambleside, by Coniston Water. From many points near this junction the retrospect upon the lake, the vale, and the heights of Coniston is strikingly pleasing-it is rich in wood, in water, and in buildings; but in diver sity of mountain line it is rarely exceeded: the deep and solitary windings of Yewdale appear to the eye, and with which the curious observer will scarcely be disappointed.

From the inn at Water-head it is about a mile to the junction of the roads just mentioned, and about a quarter of a mile more to the union of those from Ambleside and Hawkshead to Coniston. The fells of Ambleside and Rydal are here in full view, which, with a portion of the head of Windermere Water, will by their novelty entertain the traveller nearly all the way to Hawkshead.

Hawkshead

Is a compact little market-town, having within its centre a square or market-place, at the southern end of which, on a good elevation, stands the parish church, commanding a pleasant prospect of the vale and lake of Esthwaite.

The grammar-school at Hawkshead, founded by Archbishop Sandys, has educated a number of young men, whose acquirements have verified Mr. West's assertion, that "the school has always been served by able masters, and in general has given great satisfaction." "There is a charity-house for the support of ten poor boys, who are to be educated at the public schools."

On one side of the market-place there is a neat modern-built assembly-room.

The weekly market is on Mondays, but the markets at Hawkshead, like those at Ambleside and Broughton, have made but little figure since the invention of spinning by machinery. Formerly all the leisure hours in the country round Kendal were employed in preparations for the loom, and the products brought to market, and there purchased for the use of that provincial emporium. This created an animated cheerfulness, now lost and almost forgotten; but, shall the introduction of engines for the abridgement of manual labour, tend to the production of individual misery? God forbid ! Shall a

country blessed with every essential for the hap piness of its people and the glory of the state, shrink from the ample means of rendering it the richest, as well as the most powerful, empire on the face of the globe.

There are several decent inns at Hawkshead, but only one post-chaise, which is kept at the Red Lion,

Hawkshead, besides several good houses, has a number of curious old ones-some of them picturesque; it is a neat little town, with a population of about three hundred souls.

"There is at a small distance from Hawkshead, the house wherein the abbot of Furness kept residence by one or more monks, who performed divine service in the church, and other parochial duties in that neighbourhood. There still remains a court-room over the gate-way where the bailiff of Hawkshead held court, and distributed justice in the name of the abbots." This place is called Hawkshead Hall, which is a mile on the road to Ambleside.

From Hawkshead it is half a mile to

Esthwaite Water.

Esthwaite Water is about two miles in length, and half a mile across; it is encompassed by an

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excellent carriage road, that to Ulverston is on the western side of the water, which on its right passes by Grove, the seat of Thomas Beck, Esq., and on the left Esthwaite Hall, a farm-house a little beyond Esthwaite Hall, a branch from the Ulverston road leads either to the ferryhouse or round Esthwaite Water; ascend the Ulverston road about two hundred yards to the boundary of the common on the left, and at a short distance from the road observe

No. V. Esthwaite Water.

The views of Esthwaite Water from this eminence, exceed those from any other lands about the lake. No. 5 of the small etchings was made from the common, but from a point having trees as a fore-ground, and at a greater distance from the road. At the time when the sketches from which the above subjects were taken, Grove was not built; it stands opposite a beautiful promontory, stretching far into the lake, which promontory is a principal feature in this view-a small part of Esthwaite Hall is seen beyond the trees. Each side of the lake, as viewed from this place, is environed with pleasantly wooded meadow and pasture grounds; the lands at the head of the lake are of the same character, only diversified by villages, peeping from amongst groves of trees-the scene is closed, though at a great distance, by the lofty mountains of Grasmere, Rydal, and Ambleside.

The road from Ulverston to Penny Bridge is pleasant, and is a portion of that leading to Hawkshead by Whitestock Hall and Esthwaite Water, but from Penny Bridge to the first sight of Esthwaite Water, the country is somewhat dreary; the descent to the lake is, however, an agreeable, perhaps an unexpected, change, and no bad foretaste of the pleasures of the tour.

Esthwaite Water sweetly reposes in a pretty pastoral valley: the town of Hawkshead, with its elevated church, is a pleasant feature, and other villages, with farms planted on easy acclivities, and embosomed in trees, around which, in gentle undulations, the grounds rise to a considerable distance, as well as to a moderate height. In passing round the lake, the traveller will observe three remote, but distinct, distances the Langdale pikes; the fells of Grasmere, Rydal, and Ambleside, and Gummers How; a fine lined and considerably elevated hill, rising from the foot of Windermere.

The pleasantest way round Esthwaite Water is by the Grove and Esthwaite Hall, a little beyond which the road is on the banks of the lake, and graced by woods to its outlet near the bridge, from which through the village of Sawrey pass on its eastern side, and by Coulthouse and its head to Hawkshead. From Sawrey to Hawkshead the scenery is good, the irregular figure of the lake, its pretty inclosures, woods, and buildings, with the pikes of Langdale for the distance, make many delicious sylvan pic

tures.