Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1861 edition. Excerpt: ... SEASIDE LAKES AND MOUNTAINS OF CUMBEKLAND. CHAPTER THE FIRST. "Here, rivers in the sea are lost; There, mountains to the skies are tost; Here, tumbling billows mark the coast With surging foam." Buens. Op all our English lake scenery no part is less known than that which skirts the sea, from the ruins of Peel in Furness, to Whitehaven in Cumberland; and there is none which less deserves neglect. Shut out on the east by England's wildest mountains, and on the west by the Irish Channel, this region was, till lately, more difficult of approach than any other quarter of that picturesque Land. Tourists have made fitful trips to its retired lakes and glens, but have seldom wandered far there, or remained long enough to drink in the spirit of its varied scenery. Taking the beaten track of imitative sight-seers, they have climbed out of BorrowdaleintoButtermere; and after eating char at the "Fish," and talking over the legend of the yale, they have gone in a boat across Crummock Water, to look at Scale Force--the lady of English waterfalls. They have followed mountain guides over craggy wildernesses down to the lone hamlet at Wastdale Head; from whence they have, perhaps, ascended Scawfell. The mountain tops have shewn green valleys winding to westward, lighted here and there by the glimmer of a clear river's "sweet meander," with the blue sea heaving beyond; but, after a hasty glance at some of the great features mentioned in guide-books, they have generally turned again to more familiar haunts of tourist life, content to believe that what they were leaving unexplored must be uninteresting, because comparatively little known. But he who wanders lovingly in that cabinet land between the mountains and the main, will find it full of natural...