. The encyclopædia of geography: comprising a complete description of the earth, physical, statistical, civil, and political. Lodore Windermere Lake. Ambleside. Windermere {ftg. 169.), is of much wider extent; not shut in by mountainouscliffs, but bordered by wooded and ornamented hills. Around its northern banks, however,is ranged an amphitheatre of very high mountains, which, with their varied summits, forma sublime backgiound to all its landscapes. These are generally grand, open, diffusive, andextended. The other lakes, Coniston, Grasmere, Buttermere, Cromack, Wastdale, Enner-
. The encyclopædia of geography: comprising a complete description of the earth, physical, statistical, civil, and political. Lodore Windermere Lake. Ambleside. Windermere {ftg. 169.), is of much wider extent; not shut in by mountainouscliffs, but bordered by wooded and ornamented hills. Around its northern banks, however,is ranged an amphitheatre of very high mountains, which, with their varied summits, forma sublime backgiound to all its landscapes. These are generally grand, open, diffusive, andextended. The other lakes, Coniston, Grasmere, Buttermere, Cromack, Wastdale, Enner- Book I. ENGLAND 391 dale, have attractions for the admirers of nature. In this district, the only places to whichthe name of towns could be given are Keswick on Derwentwater, and Ambleside on Win-dermere ; and even these are only large villages, supported by the resort of travellers, andby some persons of distinction who are induced to reside there by the beauty of the neigh-bourhood. The third division consists of the sea-coast. The most considerable port is Whitehaven,which has become flourishing in consequence of the
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