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Title: A complete guide to the English lakes,
Year: 1855 (1850s)
Authors: Martineau, Harriet, 1802-1876
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: Windermere: : J. Garnett. London: : Whittaker and Co.
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
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^e and ear.He can gather from this station, something of thecharacter of Langdale. It has levels, here expanding,there contracting; and the stream winds among themfrom end to end. There is no lake : and the mountainssend out spurs, alternating or meeting, so as to makethe levels sometimes circular and sometimes winding.The dwellings are on the rising grounds which skirt thelevels; and this, together with the paving of the roadbelow, shows that the valley is subject to floods. Thehouses, of grey-stone, each on its knoll, with a canopyof firs and sycamores above it, and ferns scattered allaround, and ewes and lambs nestling near it, — theseprimitive farms are cheerful and pleasant objects to lookupon, whether from above or passing among them.•Nearer at hand are some vast quarries of blue slate.Below, among plantations, are seen the roofs of theElterwater Powder Mills; whence the road windsthrough the village of Langdale Chapel, to the margin
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EED BANK. 49 of the pools which make up the lake. From theiropposite shore rise the hills, height above height, —range beyond range. To the left lies Loughrigg Tarn,and, in the distance,* Windermere, with Wray Castleprominent on its height, and the Lancashire hills clos-ing in the view. It is a singular prospect, at once nobleand lovely; and the comfortable lodgings at High Closefarm are in request accordingly. The car is waiting where the traveller left it; but hehad better walk for half-a-mile or so, — the descent ofRed Bank being very steep. The great mountain thatswells so grandly above the rest before him is Helvellyn.The lake that opens below is Grasmere, with its oneisland, made up of green slope, black fir clump, and greybarn. At the further end lies the village, with its oldsquare church tower, beneath whose shadow Words-worth is buried. The white road that winds like aribbon up and up the gap between Helvellyn and theopposite fells is the mail road to Keswick, and the ga

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