The dales for shade, the hilles for breathing space,
The trembling groves, the christall running by,
And, that which all fair workes doth most aggrace,
The art which all that wrought appeared in no place.
Mountain scenery was seldom visited or described.
Michael Drayton (1731) wrote an ode on the Peak, in Derbyshire:
Though on the utmost Peak
A while we do remain,
Exposed to sleet and rain,