cliffs on the opposite shores, graced by fine trees, are rich in varied distances from the road.

The river Croglin is bounded on the southern side by land the property of Richard Lothian Ross, Esq., but when, in the year 1812, the writer was at Nunnery, Mr. Ross had not availed himself of the capabilities offered by the singular localities of the situation.

In the grounds at Nunnery all the woods are full and rich to the eye, the consequence of that management which steers between indiscriminate extermination and obstructive redundancy; a line of separation requiring that consummate skill which is the result of long and patient observation.

The Croglin is at a considerable distance from the lakes-Stock Gill is surrounded by them. Each of these rivers has its peculiar and interesting features; the trees on the Croglin display a grandeur and a richness rarely seen, but for which they are indebted to their being long under the government of that fine taste every where exhibited by the proprietors.

Stock Gill is wholly unlike the Croglin: its native charms, though seldom seen, are frequently injured, nay partially ruined, by the rude despoiling hand of avarice. From the Salutation Inn up the eastern side of the river to its head, the land for a considerable distance from the stream is held of the proprietor of the inn, and it is matter of some surprise to the writer,

that the elegant female relatives of that propri etor have not suggested the idea of a road being made from the garden of the inn along the banks of the river to the water-fall. On Stock Gill some of the trees are grand, many of them fine, and others picturesque, all which, being ridded of their impertinent neighbours, would exhibit the place in a series of new and delightful combinations from the road, which, well conducted, would display a successive variety of scenes, infinitely superior to any others in their kind about the lakes.

Mr. Gilpin observes, "a mountain torrent about half a mile from the village, forms a grand cascade; but it is so overgrown with thickets, that we had no point of view to see it from but the top, which is the most unpicturesque we could have.

"From this fall the stream rushes along a narrow valley or gill, luxuriantly adorned with rock and wood; and winding through it about a mile, emerges near the head of the lake, into which it enters. This gill was so overgrown with wood, that it appeared almost impervious: but if a path could be carried through it, and the whole a little opened, it might be made very beautiful. A scene in itself so pleasing, with a noble cascade at one end, and an extensive lake at the other, could not fail to strike the imagination in the most forcible manner."

From the inn to the water-fall half the way is on the cart road to the Groves, and the re

mainder, after having passed over a field, about 100 yards, runs by the side of the brook, on a pleasant but rugged descent, to the elevated stand where the water-fall is generally first seen.

The falls are four; the stream being divided at the top, produces two upper and two lower ones, and parts of all the four are seen from the usual stand; on descending half way, the observer arrives at the bottom of one of the upper, and the top of one of the lower falls. The view before him is a pretty little picture; the water in a volume tumbles into a circular bason, from which it issues over a shelving rock, exhibiting somewhat the appearance of an artificial fountain; trees project wildly from the encircling mural rocks, which, additionally decorated with grasses, fern, moss, and other plants, present a beautiful appearance.

The descent from this middle stand to the bottom of the gulph is somewhat difficult, but the view of rocks, water, and wood, from certain points, is grand and interesting, almost beyond any thing of the sort in the country. Can any one view these noble materials, and not regret that of those who visit the country not one in a hundred sees them to advantage; whereas, were there a convenient way to the bottom, this inconvenience would be obviated.

Above the highest falls the gill is adorned by trees, which project from the walls of rock, and is seen in pretty and often in beautiful variety almost to its source; and, were the road from the town

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made not only to the water-falls but up to the highest part of the carriage road, this new and interesting excursion would afford an interesting succession of objects: it would be the easiest, and infinitely the most pleasant, pedestrian road to Ulls Water, and a course that would be taken by many, who might meet their conveyances at the summit of the mountain pass on Kirkstone,

No. VII. Scandale Beck.

Scandale Beck crosses the Keswick road at Scandale Bridge, about three furlongs from Ambleside.

Scandale Beck runs in Scandale bottom, between the High pike and Scandale fell, after its descent from these mountain steeps about a mile, and with little fall to Sweden Bridge; but from Sweden Bridge nearly to Scandale Bridge it is through a rude channel of picturesque stones, forming most agreeable water-falls, which are decorated in great profusion with a rich and varied foliage; it joins the Rothay not four miles from its source.

This is a charming little river, and in parts will challenge a competition with Stock Gill, but its whole is certainly very much interior.

Few of the falls on Scandale Beck are high, but many of them beautiful; the best are those

between Scandale Bridge and Nook-end Bridge, and the representation here given is the first upon the stream deserving attention. The original drawing was of the size of that in Stock Gill, and entirely finished from nature.

In dry weather it is both easy and pleasant to trace the beds of such little rivulets, by stepping from stone to stone over the watery interruptions, and by such investigation some idea may be formed of what will be worthy of notice in a

wet season.

Windermere.

Windermere is the largest lake in England, being twelve miles long; about the head it is considerably more than a mile in breadth, and between the head and the islands, which are about half way down the water, it is seldom less than a mile, but it narrows gradually from the islands to Newby Bridge, which lies at the foot of the lake.

Windermere may be conveniently navigated from all the inns around it, there being boats upon the lake belonging to the inns at Ambleside, Low Wood, Bowness, the Ferry-house, and Newby Bridge. Ambleside is about three quarters of a mile from the houses called Waterhead, which are at the head of the lake, and