The tourist's new guide Author:William Green Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: feet of the mountains. And more to the right over another head-land, you catch a fourth view of the lake, twisting to the north-east. Almost opposite to this sta... more »tion, stands a house on the crown of a rock, covered with ancient trees, that has a most romantic appearance," The Coniston mountains are here in full glory, and though subject to many changes in a progress from the foot to the head of the lake, generally display themselves into lines of extraordinary beauty; but in this progress there are certain limits, within which these mountains exhibit distinct characters, and compose better not only with each other but with the materials arranged between them and the eye; of these one is between Nibthwaite and about a mile and a half northward.—the second between Coniston Bank and half a mile to the south-and the third between Bank Ground and the head of the lake. Within the first limits, the line of vision is towards the north-west, and diagonally across the lake—but within the two others at right angles to the lake, and the aspect either west or westward. J3E, Contston But from various points upon the road looking towards the north, the high lands at Water- head and Yewdale, with the distant mountains of Grasmere, Wytheburn, and Rydal, make excellent pictures, but of a character strikingly different to those of the western mountains west and north, however, viewed together are a charming eyeful!, but a range too extensive for landscape painting, the quantity given in the print being little more than a third of that ranga Sethis view is from the road, about three quarters of a mile north of Nibthwaite, iii on Collision From certain points within the limits already mentioned, the lake, with-all its rare appendages forms excellent pictures. Peel island and the a...« less