. A complete guide to the English lakes,. vanish as you approach,—being no mansion, but asmall house tying in a nook, and overshadowed by a bridge being crossed, another bit of lane leads outupon the high road near the clean little inn, the KingsHead, and within view of the vale of St. John. One would like to know how often the Bridal ofTriermain has been read within that vale. The CastleRock, in its disenchanted condition, is a prominentobject in approaching the vale from Legberthwaite, orby the road just described; and there are lights andgloomy moments in which it looks as like as
. A complete guide to the English lakes,. vanish as you approach,—being no mansion, but asmall house tying in a nook, and overshadowed by a bridge being crossed, another bit of lane leads outupon the high road near the clean little inn, the KingsHead, and within view of the vale of St. John. One would like to know how often the Bridal ofTriermain has been read within that vale. The CastleRock, in its disenchanted condition, is a prominentobject in approaching the vale from Legberthwaite, orby the road just described; and there are lights andgloomy moments in which it looks as like as may be toa scene of witchery, — now engrossing the sunshinewhen the range to which it belongs is all in shadow;and now perversely gloomy, because there is a singlecloud in the sky. The narrow vale is full of characterand charm, from end to end ; and at its northern extre-mity it comes out upon a spot of strong historicalinterest. The village of Threlkeld will, by its name, re-mind the traveller of the good Lord Clifford, the story of. CASTLERIGG. 71 whose boyhood is familiar to all readers of place is, indeed, the refuge where the boy passedhis shepherd life ; and there is a local tradition that,though he never learned to read or write, during thetwenty-four years that he spent in keeping sheep, hisastronomical knowledge was considerable, and so inter-esting to him that he improved it by study after hecame to his estates. The road through Threlkeld will,however, be followed by the traveller on another occa-sion, and not now : for he must not miss that view fromCastlerigg, which made the poet Gray long to go backagain to Keswick; and he will not, therefore, now passthrough the vale. Within five miles from the peepinto it, the view opens, which presently comprehendsthe whole extent from Bassenthwaite Lake to theentrance of Borrowdale, — the plain between the twolakes of Bassenthwaite and Derwent Water, presentingone of the richest scenes in England, — with
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