. The British Isles : a guide for overseas visitors, taking in the American pilgrim shrines, the principal show-places and other famed for their history, beauty, or literary associations. istance, and theneighbourhood is a delightful one in which to is the largest of the lakes. The upper reachesare the deepest and finest. At its head the majesticLoughrigg Fell, girt by the twin glens of the Rothay and theBrathay, towers over Ambleside, while the peaks of Bowfell,the Langdales and the Coniston mountains appear in thebackground. Wansfell rises on the eastern shore and]Xeping ou
. The British Isles : a guide for overseas visitors, taking in the American pilgrim shrines, the principal show-places and other famed for their history, beauty, or literary associations. istance, and theneighbourhood is a delightful one in which to is the largest of the lakes. The upper reachesare the deepest and finest. At its head the majesticLoughrigg Fell, girt by the twin glens of the Rothay and theBrathay, towers over Ambleside, while the peaks of Bowfell,the Langdales and the Coniston mountains appear in thebackground. Wansfell rises on the eastern shore and]Xeping out from the woods is Dove Nest, at one time theloved home of Mrs. Hemans, the poetess, whose works wereformerly as popular in America as they were in England. At the southern end of the lake, in a beautiful situation,stands Newby Bridge, a village much resorted to byNathaniel Hawthorne, author of The Scarlet Letter and Tanglewood Tales. Troutbeck, a delightful mountain village, was thehome of Hogarth, the eighteenth century artist, and here,too, is the famotis Mortal Man Inn. The Parish Church at Bowness has some fine stainedglass transferred from Cartmel Priory at the Dissolution,. CARLISLE TO CHESTER. and also on the walls are some quaint decorative texts,which were long obscured by our Puritanical forbearswith whitewash. Bowness and Windermere Village arepracticall}^ one, and from the Ferry can be obtained thefinest possible view of the lake. A littlebelow the Ferry lies Storrs Hall, now theGrand Hotel, where Wordsworth, Shelley,Southey, Scott, De Quincey, ProfessorWilson and George Canning used to visitJohn Bolton, then the owner of the Windermere we can take theroad to Ullswater, over the KirkstonePass (1,481 feet above sea level). Ulls-water, for sheer beaut}, is rivalled onlyby Derwentwater. It is the secondlargest of the lakes, and is traversed byWILLIAM pleasure steamers from which the finest WORDSWORTH. ^.^^^^ ^f ^^^ j^j^^ ^^^ -^^ beautiful sur-roundings can
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