. Westmoreland, Cumberland, Durham, and Northumberland, illustrated : from original drawings by Thomas Allom, George Pickering, & c. ; with descriptions by T. Rose . hine framesA lasting tablet—for the observers eyeVarying its rainbow hues. It has been remarked, that the seclusions of nature, are more favourable to puredevotional feeling, than the crowded haunts of society; and few, we believe, will disputethe truth of the observation. The footsteps of Deity are far less discernible in thethickly inhabited city, where every thing that meets the eye is the result of human art andingenuity, than
. Westmoreland, Cumberland, Durham, and Northumberland, illustrated : from original drawings by Thomas Allom, George Pickering, & c. ; with descriptions by T. Rose . hine framesA lasting tablet—for the observers eyeVarying its rainbow hues. It has been remarked, that the seclusions of nature, are more favourable to puredevotional feeling, than the crowded haunts of society; and few, we believe, will disputethe truth of the observation. The footsteps of Deity are far less discernible in thethickly inhabited city, where every thing that meets the eye is the result of human art andingenuity, than in the wide theatre of nature, where littleness is not, and even theleast of things seem infinite. The engraving is illustrative of an interesting poem, by Wordsworth, founded on thefact of a lamb having fallen into the basin of the cataract, whence it was taken unhurt. COLWITH FORCE,—WESTMORLAND. At the distance of five miles, west from Ambleside, the tourist discovers a precipitouspath leading to Colwith bridge; a rude structure of one arch, thrown across the riverColwith, which, taking its rise in the stupendous fells above, here discharges its waters.
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