traordinary exhibition have been visited and often mentioned before, it is but a tribute of respect due to their excellences, when in general assemblage, to take a handsome leave of them. The writer, either as a planner, map, or draftsman, might, perhaps, better have described the country than in words; but as words are now his vehicle for information, he must make up for his want of elegance by a studious attention to utility.

Excursion to Yewdale and Tilberthwaite.

One cart excursion into Lancashire, yet remains to be noticed, it is from Ambleside to Shepherd's Bridge; and the nearest and the most interesting way to it, is by the Little Langdale road, as far as the end of the high terrace between Skelwith and Colwith Bridges, where a road on the left leads direct to the New Inn, at Coniston Water Head, and the first turn on the right out of that road by Shepherd's Bridge to Coniston Church.

The turn on the right just spoken of, passes some houses called Oxen Fell, from the neighbourhood of which, the mountains of Little Langdale with Bow Fell are fine objects; from Oxen Fell it is but a short distance to Hodge Close, where near to the road, there is a grand and extensive slate quarry, which is entered subterraneously.

A little beyond Hodge Close is displayed an old friend with a new, though honest, face, in

the whole range of Langdale Pikes, more extended horizontally, than from Windermere, Loughrigg Tarn, and Elter Water; but less so than from Blea Tarn: a ridge of moderate elevation, on the side of which are the Tilberthwaite slate quarries, runs in a line unpicturesquely parallel to the Pikes, but the woods near the road may be so arranged as to break that middle line, and with the assistance of a good fore-ground, the materials for which are at hand, will make an excellent picture; but all the powers of art can never render this scene of the Pikes, equal to that of Enfoot, presented to the eye of the spectator on his approach to Holm Ground, just at the place where he may observe the Tilberthwaite houses deeply engulphed at the foot of a process of Wedderlamb; these houses, embowered in trees, are seen through woods nearer to the eye and in a most happy assemblage: Enfoot and Wedderlamb, whose surfaces are exquisitely broken by rocks, are cut off on the left by the hill, over which the road passes; on the side of that road may be observed a group of birch and ash trees in aid of the whole arrangement, which is one of the grandest in its kind. Passing the pretty group of trees, may be seen on the right, Holm Ground, composed of a few houses, standing in picturesque combination, on the side of a steep hill. From Holm Ground descend precipitately to Shepherd's Bridge, and from that Bridge by the Yew Tree to the New Inn, at Coniston, or by Yewdale Grove to the Black Bull, in Coniston.

Tilberthwaite into Little Langdale, and back to Ambleside over Colwith and Skelwith Bridges.

This excursion might be beautifully varied by passing from Little Langdale over Fletcher's Wood by Elter Water Hall to Langdale Chapel, and from the Chapel by High Close to Ambleside.

Mansfell Pike,

The walk from Ambleside to Wansfell Pike presents an extraordinary variety of interesting scenery, which, though often observed, noted, and recollected by the writer, was reexamined about the middle of April, 1817; and as the effects produced by the sun and air for the season of the year, were particularly beautiful, they will be occasionally noticed.

Leaving the Kendal road at Low Fold, and passing a plantation of larches, on the left hand, after walking about two hundred yards, a road to the left conducts the tourist to Strawberry Bank, a pretty modern erection, from the front end and back of which the eye is delighted with most beautiful views of the surrounding country.

Returning from Strawberry Bank to the lane end there is a fine prospect of the vale of Ambleside, and Rydal, with Rydal Hall, Clap

pers-gate, Brathay, and the buildings at Water Head. Here may be seen a small part of the lake of Windermere, and a stripe of Blelham Tarn beyond it; with High Wray and the Table Mountain: from the ends of these roads, all along the terrace to the woods, these objects present themselves with little variation. The ascent is, for a short distance, moderate, but on a turn of the road it becomes rugged and steep. From the most abrupt parts, the views are very fine, particularly to the westward.

Just beyond a pollard ash, a peat road presents itself to the left, leading to Wansfell Pike. It turns off fifty yards short of Higher Skelgill, and about as many yards up this road, we gain, by looking back, a charming prospect of Windermere, with its larger and smaller islands, attired in winter's green, gradually receding into the azure of extreme distance. Ascending, on the left, we see Blelham Tarn, and the Coniston Fells, over Pull Wyke with its wooded promontories, in part cut off on the north by rising lands near the eye. For about two hundred yards a few straggling pollard ashes, springing from amongst shattered rocks, form no very pleasing feature, but ample amends is made by a retrospect on Windermere, particularly from the stunted ashes near a sheep fold, where the rich expances of Ecclerigg and Miller Ground bays, give additional interest to the splendid display of water on each side of Curwen's Island, and the extensive ranges of cultivation spreading on the left to Applethwaite Common, and receding from a brownish green into the extreme distance of a fine etherial blue.

About one hundred yards beyond the sheep fold appear the Coniston Fells, elegantly contrasted by rocky foreground, and advancing ten yards, the same rocks become a good front ground to Blelham Tarn. Sixty paces further, the whole range of the mountains from the Old Man in Coniston to the High Pikes in Rydal, including the vales of Little Langdale and Rydal, separated by the undulating surfaces of Loughrigg Fell, burst with almost magical effect on the astonished eye. Miller Bridge Cottage just shews itself, but Ambleside is hid by a projecting part of the hill. The road

passes from this place between wild crags, and through their openings the top of mountains, west and northward, are occasionally seen. We next cross an old walled road, which anciently was travelled from Ambleside to Troutbeck: here the Coniston mountains and the lake of Windermere are enriched by bold foregrounds: the way is on the top of an old slate quarry to the corner of a hill which commands one of the most interesting mountain prospects in the country. Looking towards the south on the right of high near grounds is Bowness, and immediately beyond it Lancaster sands, the head and foot of Windermere, with all the water excepting a little south of the Ferry House, and over Windermere, Leven Sands, and the south of Furness; over the head of the lake is Blelham Tarn, with Hawskhead and its white church, and near our eyes, Waterhead, Brathay, Clappersgate, and in a wild new and interesting combination, we discover Ambleside in charming bird's eye prospect; a scrap of