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endless variety of bay and promontory, island and holm; the latter from its extent, which exceeds that of every other of these sheets of water. The northern and southern extremities are marked by very different features; mountains rude and bare, crags lofty and ragged Langdale-Pikes, Hind- Knot, and Wry-Nose form the impervious bar- rier to the first termination; whilst the latter pre- sents nothing but soft sloping banks, fringed with wood, and smiling with the marks of human in- dustry. The road running parallel with the east- ern shore of the lake passes the excellent inn of Low-Wood, admirably situated for the visitor of Winandermere ; the well-tilled fields and widely- spreading plantations of Kalgarth, the residence of the learned Bishop of St. Asaph; who, having thrown light upon science, and corroborated by his reasonings the evidences of revealed religion, is still in the bosom of rural quiet and domestic happiness benefiting mankind, by increasing ex- periments and new discoveries in the important art of philosophical husbandry.

Hence we proceeded to Bowness, a small village seated close to the waters of Winandermere, and accommodated with every sort of boat and vessel for crossing the lake and visiting the islands upon it. Of these there are fourteen in number; the

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