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 the left of it is Darn-Hill, the seat of Mr Black. orna-mented with wood and water; then ong trees is Pigmie-Hall; then water, and seat of W. Gordon. Then over the lake is the Vind; it is sometimes the residence of I. P., and it is well environed and ornamented both with wood and water. And to it one may sail in a boat, but not in the time of Winter, for with both ice and water it is unpassable. And then by the lake side is Stable Hills, very beautiful to behold; and near it it is an immense plantation of trees, where sometimes the crows are building nests, for preparing of their young. Then Ramps Holm, and Keswick lake, and St. Derwent’s lake, and the Lord’s Island, and the Island of Lord Derwentwater, who was in times of old beheaded for his misdemeanor. Over the lake to his house there was once a drawbridge, but now it is all demolished and gone to ruin. Then I passed through the thick woods of Lord Egre-mont, to the valley of Newlands, with its green and smiling fields. In the summer season they look most beautiful. Then I did come to White-house, built on a rising ground, named the Grange, in the midst of a valley, and all around with mountains on every side ; and on is publicly signed a most curious Roman mot-to, but it is in English, "Rest in Heaven" Near it is a salt well, for the curing and healing of every dis-ease or disorder. And that mineral well of water, it is worth more money than their is in all Borrowdale, for it healeth the sick, it cureth the blind, and it can set the prisoner free ; and it is sent for a donation from God, for the curing and healing of all nations. But yet it is not so salt as Lot’s wile, who was turned into a pillar of salt, as we may so read in Scripture. Next curious place is Watelath tarn,: then a little off it we may come and enter into the Jaw’s of Borrowdale, which is a most turbulent chaos of mountains behind mountains, rolled as in confusion, and there may be seen many a hundred of nameless hills without end. From Borrowdle it is six miles in length to the the curious Bowder Stone, to the Wad Mines, near