Category: Travel Writing
The Head of Buttermere and High Crags--(_Cover_) Near Ferry Nab, Windermere--(_Frontispiece_) The Island, Grasmere The Old Mill, Ambleside The Middle Reach of Ullswater--“After Rain” Windermere from Orrest Head The Langdale Pikes Windermere from Furness Fell Waterhead and the...
“This,” said John Ruskin, speaking of the Vale of Yewdale, “is the most beautiful valley in England.” And it is by Yewdale that Coniston is usually approached. Wherefore let all...
5. CHAPTER IV.The main road running North from Grasmere to Thirlmere, over Dunmail Raise, rises to a height of eight hundred and fifty feet. On a hot summer’s day it is a long sultry grind, w...
6. CHAPTER V.The Buttermere Round (as the famous drive through Borrowdale, over Honister Pass to Buttermere, and back by the Vale of Newlands, is called) will always be an out-standing featu...
2. CHAPTER I.It may be fearlessly asserted that those portions of the counties of Cumberland, Westmoreland and Lancashire known as the Lake District, contain more natural beauty, more litera...
3. CHAPTER II.Windermere recalls the name of one who made it peculiarly his own--that genial-hearted philosopher, Christopher North (Professor Wilson), who has left on record that “the best t...
7. CHAPTER VI.Ullswater is at once the finest and the tamest of all the lakes. This seeming paradox is explained when one realizes that it is formed of three distinct reaches, all of which ar...
4. CHAPTER III.Grasmere has been called the heart of the Lake District, and not without good reason. As a centre for driving or walking it is ideal, for it is situated within an easy day’s mar...
1. CHAPTER I. An appreciation: The cause and history of Lakeland 5The Head of Buttermere and High Crags--(_Cover_) Near Ferry Nab, Windermere--(_Frontispiece_) The Island, Grasmere The Old Mill, Ambleside The Middle Reach of Ullswater--“After...