. A complete guide to the English lakes,. it standson the site of a real old tower, named, it is said, afterthe Ulf, or LUlf, the first Baron of Grey stoke, whogave its name to the lake. Some, however, insist thatthe real name is Wolfs Tower. The park which sur-rounds it, and stretches down to the lake, is studdedwith ancient trees; and the sides of its watercourses,and the depths of its ravines, are luxuriantly hills, with climbing tracks, rise behind, on whichthe herds of deer are occasionally seen, like brownshadows from the clouds. They are safe there frombeing startled (as the
. A complete guide to the English lakes,. it standson the site of a real old tower, named, it is said, afterthe Ulf, or LUlf, the first Baron of Grey stoke, whogave its name to the lake. Some, however, insist thatthe real name is Wolfs Tower. The park which sur-rounds it, and stretches down to the lake, is studdedwith ancient trees; and the sides of its watercourses,and the depths of its ravines, are luxuriantly hills, with climbing tracks, rise behind, on whichthe herds of deer are occasionally seen, like brownshadows from the clouds. They are safe there frombeing startled (as they are in the glades of the park)by strangers who come to find out Ara Force byfollowing the sound of the fall. Our tourist must takea guide to this waterfall from the tower. He will be led over the open grass to the ravine, andthen along its wooded sides on a pathway above thebrawling stream, till he comes to a bridge, which willbring him in full view of the fall. As he sits in thecool damp nook at the bottom of the chasm, where the fr^O. AEA FORCE. 39 echo of dashing and gurgling water never dies, andthe ferns, long grasses and ash sprays wave and quivereverlastingly in the pulsing air; and as, looking up, hesees the slender line of bridge spanning the upper fall,he ought to know of the mournful legend which belongsto this place, and which Wordsworth has preserved : —In the olden times, a knight who loved a lady, andcourted her in her fathers tower here, at Greystoke,went forth to win glory. He won great glory : and atfirst his lady rejoiced fully in it: but he was so long inreturning, and she heard so much of his deeds in behalfof distressed ladies, that doubts at length stole uponher heart as to whether he still loved her. Thesedoubts disturbed her mind in sleep : and she began towalk in her dreams, directing her steps towards thewaterfall where she and her lover used to meet. Undera holly tree beside the fall they had plighted theirvows, and this was the limit of her drea
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