Beautiful Lakeland

Near Ferry Nab, Windermere
“An August Afternoon.”

By ASHLEY P. ABRAHAM
Nature I’ll court in her sequestered haunts, By mountain, meadow, streamlet, grove or dell, Where the poisèd lark his evening ditty chants, And health, and peace, and contemplation dwell. — Smollett.
With 32 full page Monogravure Illustrations (copyright) By G. P. Abraham, F.R.P.S., Keswick. published by G. P. Abraham, Keswick. 1912.


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 literary associations and more diversity of charm than any other similar area of the whole of the Earth’s surface.
Within the small space of thirty square miles, scenes of the wildest grandeur and the most tranquil beauty exist side by side. From the grim recesses of Scawfell and Great Gable one can pass in two or three hours to the placid haunts of Windermere. The stern solitudes of Wastwater can be visited upon the same day as the peaceful shores of Derwentwater, “set like a gem amid the encircling hills.”