Domestic Memoirs of a Christian Family Resident in the County of Cumberland: With Descriptive Sketches of the Scenery of the British LakesJ. Hatchard and Son, 1848 - 416 pages |
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Page 95
... Borrowdale , on the west bank of the Derwent . The approach to this romantic vale presents , at this place , all the gigantic features of a mountain pass . Huge precipices , crags , and towering rocks , here exhibit to the admiring ...
... Borrowdale , on the west bank of the Derwent . The approach to this romantic vale presents , at this place , all the gigantic features of a mountain pass . Huge precipices , crags , and towering rocks , here exhibit to the admiring ...
Page 96
... Borrowdale and its mysterious forms . The position of this singular object is most remarkable in another point of view , namely , that in consequence of its being balanced on a kind of central edge , the two under sides of it are ...
... Borrowdale and its mysterious forms . The position of this singular object is most remarkable in another point of view , namely , that in consequence of its being balanced on a kind of central edge , the two under sides of it are ...
Page 129
... Borrowdale , and far to the south , the northern end of Windermere appeared , like a wreath of grey smoke that spreads along a mountain's side . More southward still , and beyond all the fells of the lakes , Lancaster Sands extended to ...
... Borrowdale , and far to the south , the northern end of Windermere appeared , like a wreath of grey smoke that spreads along a mountain's side . More southward still , and beyond all the fells of the lakes , Lancaster Sands extended to ...
Page 177
... Borrowdale , where the ponies were to be in waiting to carry them forward to the blacklead mines . After examining these , they were to wind their way through the wild valley of Gatesgarth Dale to Buttermere Lake , taking a view of ...
... Borrowdale , where the ponies were to be in waiting to carry them forward to the blacklead mines . After examining these , they were to wind their way through the wild valley of Gatesgarth Dale to Buttermere Lake , taking a view of ...
Page 181
... Borrowdale , as well as the passage through it , charmed them with its awful and picturesque grandeur , as much as when they beheld it on a former excursion to visit the Bowder stone , which has been already described in a pre- vious ...
... Borrowdale , as well as the passage through it , charmed them with its awful and picturesque grandeur , as much as when they beheld it on a former excursion to visit the Bowder stone , which has been already described in a pre- vious ...
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