. Westmoreland, Cumberland, Durham, and Northumberland, illustrated : from original drawings by Thomas Allom, George Pickering, & c. ; with descriptions by T. Rose . CUMBERLAND, DURHAM, AND NORTHUMBERLAND. 23 entirely different effect: the most ravishing sounds fill the air, and form a thousand sym-phonies playing together from every part. Such is the illusion of the moment, that thewhole lake is transformed into a kind of magical scene, in which every promontory seemspeopled by aerial beings, answering each other in celestial music. Between Ullswater and Windermere there is this difference; t
. Westmoreland, Cumberland, Durham, and Northumberland, illustrated : from original drawings by Thomas Allom, George Pickering, & c. ; with descriptions by T. Rose . CUMBERLAND, DURHAM, AND NORTHUMBERLAND. 23 entirely different effect: the most ravishing sounds fill the air, and form a thousand sym-phonies playing together from every part. Such is the illusion of the moment, that thewhole lake is transformed into a kind of magical scene, in which every promontory seemspeopled by aerial beings, answering each other in celestial music. Between Ullswater and Windermere there is this difference; the former will be mostattractive to the deeply-contemplative mind, and the latter to the young and the volatile—to those who had rather be pleased than astonished. Solitude has placed her throne onthe mountains of Ullswater; if, indeed, we may call it loneliness, to range amid themagnificence of nature, and hold high converse with her charms :— To sit on rocks, to muse oer flood and fell,To slowly trace the forests shady scene,Where things that own not mans dominion dwell,And mortal foot hath neer, or rarely been;To climb the trackless mountain all unseen
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