Lanterna Rally

Author: James Payn

Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com

Published:

Total Pages: 28

ISBN-13: 9781236365941

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1859 Excerpt: ...although from the walks in its vicinity, and the two little bridges thrown across it, it wears perforce an artificial air. The legend of the sleep-walking lady and the knight from Palestine or elsewhere, is bald and improbable enough, nor does it even enhance to us the charm of the situation. The story that a deer and dog came down the roaring fall, without hurt to the latter animal, is much more harmonious and fitting to the place. The long deep winding dell, --the mossy stones, --the fern-clad banks, --the gleaming cataract leaping from one trembling bridge to the other, --and the not unusual sight of herds of deer seen through the trees that fringe its northern side, --form a spectacle, however, independent of any amount qf association. Stand for a few minutes ere you leave Ara Force, upon the green hill above it, and view the mountainous amphitheatre at the lake's head. The hill that fills up the eastern shore of the upper reach is Place Fell;.Red Screes, from its colour, is the most striking of the hills towards Patterdale; next are Dove Crag and Birks, and then St. Sunday's Crag (up Grisedale way) with Fairfield peeping over his shoulder. The shapes of many of these are however, as it seems, continually changing, (more so upon Ullswater than elsewhere) and we learn to value our old friends, the Langdale Pikes, of exemplary conduct in this matter, all the more. And now, if we have been thoughtful, we have ordered a boat to meet us at this Tower, and have sent the carriage back to the inn: for Ullswater is a lake that should not be seen only from its shores, however fair. The islands in it, as are all the Lakeland islands TTLLSWATEB. 43 (with the melancholy exception of the one in our own beloved Grasmere) are beautifully wooded and studded with rock; the ea...