Powley Bridge.

Powley Bridge is five miles from Penrith, ten from the inn at Patterdale, nineteen from Ambleside, sixteen from Keswick, three from Lowther Castle, and seven from Hawswater.

At Powley Bridge, which is a pleasant place, there is a good inn, commanding a view of Dunmallet, a hill covered with massy woods. Dunmallet stands on the Cumberland side of the Eamont; and the remains of a Roman fort may be seen on its summit. The following description of the views, which may here be enjoyed, from the pen of the placid Mr. Gray, will be read with pleasure.

"Approach Dunmallet, a fine pointed hill covered with wood. Began to ascend the hill, and with some toil gained the summit. From hence saw the lake opening directly at my feet, majestic in its calmness, clear and smooth as a blue mirror, with winding shores, and low points of land, covered with green inclosures, white farm houses looking out among the trees, and cattle feeding. The water is almost every where bordered with cultivated lands, gently sloping upwards, from a quarter of a mile in breadth, till they reach the feet of the mountains, which rise very rude and awful with their broken tops on either hand. Directly in front, at better than three miles distance, Place Fell, one of the bravest amongst them, pushes its bold breast into the midst of the

lake, and forces it to alter its course, forming first a large bay on the left, and then bending to the right."

"Descended Dunmallet, then walked through a path in the wood round the bottom of the hill, came forth where the Eamont issues out of the lake, and continued my way along the western shore close to the water, and generally on a level with it. After extending itself three miles and a half in a line to the southwest, it turns at the foot of Place Fell, almost due west. To this second turning I pursued my way, about four miles along its borders, beyond a village scattered among trees and called Water Millock."

Mr. West observes, "Here Mr. Gray leaves us, and the greatest part of the lake unseen, and its most picturesque part undescribed."

Near the foot of Ulls Water, a quarter of a mile from the inn at Powley Bridge, stands Ewesmere. It was built by Thomas Clarkson, Esq., whose publications on the slave trade are well known. Ewesmere was purchased by the Earl of Lonsdale from Mr. Clarkson. It commands a view of the lower reach of the lake, which, on all hands, rich and splendid in its woods, inclosures, and scatterings of trees, is additionally valuable from its beautifully embayed shores. Hallin Fell from no situation displays so fine a line as from Ewesmere, and the mountains of Martindale and Glenridden, (amongst which, Place Fell and Helvellen rise

high above the rest), by their aerial recedings give to this scene an uncommon degree of in terest; and observed under the effects of a thin celestial azure, it will appear like enchantment, rather than reality.

Dacre Castle, Hutton John, Greystoke Castle, Dalemain, Barton Church, Sockbridge, and Yanwath Halls, all lie in a pretty round from Powley.

Dacre Castle is about two miles north of Powley Bridge. It is an ancient building of a moderate size, and is in a more perfect state than the generality of northern castles. The church stands a short distance from the castle.

"Dacre is noted for having given name to, or rather perhaps received its name from the barons of Dacre, who continued there for many ages; it now belongs to Edward Hasell, Esq.*

Hutton John is supposed to have been for a long time the residence of a younger branch of the Huttons, of Hutton. Andrew Huddleston, Esq. is its present proprietor.

Greystoke Castle, one of the seats of his Grace the Duke of Norfolk, stands about two miles north of the thirteenth mile stone on the road from Keswick to Penrith.

* Burns, vol. 2, page 377.

Dalemain, the seat of Edward Hasell, Esq., is a large house of the King William school of Architecture, standing in a pleasant valley near the Cumberland road from Penrith to Ulls Water.

Barton Church is in Westmorland, and just over the river from Dalemain. The writer saw it in 1802, part of it was then a ruin: he went a second time in 1812, intending to study, but the dilapidated part had been repaired.

Sockbridge Hall is something nearer Penrith; it is a ruin deserving the attention of the artist.

Yanwath Hall is a castellated old building, and is a good specimen of the ancient Westmorland Hall; it is a fine object from the Cumberland side of the Eamont, on the somewhat elevated banks of which river it stands. Yanwath Hall is about four miles from Powley Bridge.

Haws Water.

To this lake Mr. Housman introduces his reader through Long Sleddale, and Long Sleddale is certainly a very pleasant valley, but will excite admiration only in the minds of those who have been accustomed to level countries. On seeing the vallies branching

from the head of Ulls Water, and those of Ambleside, Langdale, Seathwaite, Borrowdale, and Wastdale,-Long Sleddale, though perhaps unequalled in the lakeless English counties, will cease to be interesting as at first sight to such visitors. Mr. Housman's account of Long Sleddale is accurate but of considerable length. His Roman like description of Haws Water and the pretty pastoral scenes below the chapel, all in prospect display much taste and feeling; for retrospect he has none; though a back view, particularly from the higher grounds, is upon one of the grandest combinations in the country, but these combinations noticed by Mr. Young, in his six months tour, have been judiciously copied by Mr. West, and form the principal part of his account of Haws Water.

The foot of Haws Water is seven miles south of the foot of Ulls Water or Powley Bridge. It is eleven miles from Penrith, and between three and four miles by way of the Abbey from Shap.

From Powley Bridge to Haws Water the road is at first rather steep, but as it rises there is a view of the lower and middle reaches of Ulls Water, where its elegantly winding shores, rich woods and rocky mountains are exhibited with new and highly interesting associations. Hallin Fell is here a principle feature, and the fertile undulations of Sharrow and Water Millock, distanced by the magnificent pile of steeps arising from the water's brink to the summit of Helvellyn, will altogether, arrest the attention