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river Airey that foams through the gulphy bottom, we reached a rude wooden bridge, thrown across the water at a sequestered point where the rocks rise on each side in great majesty, and passing it caught the cascade tumbling down a precipice at least eighty feet high. The scene is extremely solemn and picturesque.

On our return to Pooley bridge, the views down the lake rather pleased than astonished us; being chiefly characterized by that softness and repose to which the rocky mountains we had left are so entirely adverse. Dunmallard made a conspicuous feature in this picture: under whose northern side we now drove, and entered upon a differe " t ; oad to that we had taken on visiting Ulswater, leading us through a fine rich country, that borrowed beauty as well as fertility from the river Emmont, whose silver tide glides amongst its meads and woods, rolling from the foot of Ulswater, the prolific womb of waters whence it springs.

Derwciitwater naturally succeeded our hist tour as the next feature in the hikes, when they are taken from the north. The distance from Penrith is eighteen miles, and the road admirable, though the mountains which inclose it on each side preclude all distant view. Of these, the black and rugged Saddleback to the right is most conspicuous, at

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