left of it, there is a fine view over the bridges, towards Helvellyn.

Ascending a steep hill, we gain a retrospect on Wyburn, which, however, is greatly superior to those already mentioned.

From the round plantation near the road a better retrospect may be obtained than from any other neighbouring stand; for here the upper and the lower lakes, whose deeply embayed shores, and bold promontories, are ornamented with innumerable forest trees, are in view. Dale Head and Armbath are seen, richly embowered in aged woods; Helvellyn rises on the left, Fisher Crag, and other rocky elevations, on the right. In the vista over the lake the road leading to Dunmail Raise appears, which is guarded on the left by Seat Sandal, and on the right by Steel Fell. The firs and larches seen from this place, are generally softened by distance; and the whole, including the island called Bucks Holm, on the Dale Head side of the lake, which is a pretty object, forms a scene, or scenes, of more than common interest.

The above view is from the south side of a bold head-land projecting from Raven Crag, almost to the opposite shores of the lake. Over this head-land the road passes to the last, but not the least beautiful reach on Leaths Water, and should the traveller wish to see Raven Crag from the end of this head-land, he may deviate on the right below the before-mentioned plan

tation to the lake, and pass along its shore till he has in view

Raven Crag on Leaths Water. No.Thirty-four.

From this place Raven Crag is a sublime object, and it is characteristically accompanied by the grand overhanging rocks on the left, called Otter Bield; and the large stones in the foreground add to its interest.

Raven Crag, Fisher Crag, and Bull Crag, on Leaths Water, are all similarly constructed to Raven Crag in Yewdale, and Eagle Crag in Borrowdale. In all these elevations the rocks which are connected by horizontal shelves of moss, rise perpendicularly tier above tier, to a great height, and appear occasionally like immense fortifications.

On such rugged assemblages the effects produced by rolling mists, and by ascending and descending clouds, are grateful to the spectator of taste, whose pleasure is encreased when favoured by the addition of sunny illuminations.

From this place it will be necessary to retrace the deviating track, and pass the fir clump before-mentioned, to the top of the hill. Here the traveller has in view the last reach of the lake guarded by a set of new and well marked features. On the left, the bold projections on

Raven Crag wildly graced by picturesque trees, are presented in an amusing succession of changes all the way from the top to the bottom of the hill. Hence the road, which is tolerably even, passes among well-shaped stones, having the lake at no great distance on the right. Superbly decorated in wood may be observed in retrospect, Otter Bield, and over it the lofty summit of Helvellyn.

Helvellyn from Leaths Water. No. Thirtyfive,

Helvellyn may be seen from Ulls Water, Windermere and Coniston Water, but it exhibits a greater quantity of surface, and a finer form from the foot of Leaths Water, than from any other lake. Otter Bield, as a middle ground, is well contrasted with the grand sweeping lines of Helvellyn, and with the sweetly wooded undulations at Dale Head.

The chain of mountains verging from Helvellyn southward carries the eye to the boundaries of Grasmere.

The above association is scarcely inferior in its kind to that sublime and beautiful scene before-mentioned as the best on the Place Fellside of Ulls Water.

Two or three hundred yards east of the road the lake narrows itself into the River Greta;

here, graced by picturesque trees, which, in lines of beauty, play sportively upon its banks. All this neighbourhood is a fine field for local study, or for the union of near and distant objects.

From a diminutive out-house, a little way on there is a back view of the bridges at Armbath, with the lake and the mountains bordering on Leaths Water, of which Helvellyn is the principal it was from the hill side, a little north of this place, that Mr. Glover, in 1816, made his large and beautiful painting of Leaths Water.

Under this hill the road is for a short distance on the brink of the Greta. Near the place where it leaves it, Raven Crag is a grand and imposing back-ground to the beautiful trees which overhang the stony bed and ruffled waters of the river. Having passed two houses called Smeathwaite, the road joins that between Ambleside and Keswick twelve miles and a quarter from the former place.

The writer, in the year 1803, had the pleasure of conducting the two celebrated artists, Messrs. Hills and Glover, to some of the favourite scenes on the western side of Leaths Water.

A journey from Keswick over Helvellyn to Ambleside will be found replete with interest to those who can "look on nature's beauties with a lover's eye." Such, at least, it seemed to the author when he performed it; and,

though not willing to intrude himself urnecessarily on those who are pleased to peruse his book, he will venture to give his description of the objects to be sought in the route which he has indicated, in the shape of a narrative of his own excursion in company with one of his sons, and Mr. Jonathan Otley, of Keswick.

Leaving Keswick at a quarter before six in the morning of August 6th, 1817, we passed along the road from Keswick to Helvellyn, which is four miles and three quarters on the Ambleside road; there it leaves the turnpike, and is for a short distance on the Wyburn road to Thelkeld, from whence it passes to a farm house called Stainah, where we arrived at half past seven. From Stainah, the descent for a considerable distance, is on a steep zig-zag, having on the left one of the little mountain rivers, falling into St. John's Vale. This river, which runs at the feet of high and steep rocks, wore, at this time, the appearance of a pretty streamlet. The rocks, which are broad, weil coloured, and in some places overhung by trees, are not only objects of interest, as side screens to the river, but as side grounds to the retrospect on the vale of Naddle, Naddle Fell, the road over Shoulthwaite Moss and its continuation to the top of Castlerigg. This is a pleasant combination, over which, to add to its value, Skiddaw rises in majestic grandeur.

In the Wastdale direction, exactly over Armbath House, appear the Pikes on Scaw Fell; and on ascending, Gable and other Wastdale moun