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.

Contents

PAGE
[Chapter][I.][ An appreciation: The cause and history of Lakeland][5]
[” ][ II.][ Windermere and Ambleside][12]
[” ][ III.][Grasmere and Rydal][19]
[” ][ IV. ][Thirlmere, Derwentwater and Bassenthwaite][24]
[” ][ V.][The Buttermere Round][32]
[” ][ VI.][Ullswater, Helvellyn and Kirkstone Pass][39]
[” ][ VII.] [Coniston, Wastwater and Furness Abbey][45]

List of Illustrations

[The Head of Buttermere and High Crags—(Cover)] [Near Ferry Nab, Windermere—(Frontispiece)] [The Island, Grasmere] [The Old Mill, Ambleside] [The Middle Reach of Ullswater—“After Rain”] [Windermere from Orrest Head] [The Langdale Pikes] [Windermere from Furness Fell] [Waterhead and the Langdale Pikes, Windermere] [Ambleside and Wansfell] [Stock Ghyll Force, Ambleside] [Grasmere Lake and Village] [Grasmere Church] [Rydal Water and Nab Scar] [Thirlmere and Helvellyn] [Keswick and Derwentwater] [Derwentwater from Friar’s Crag—“A Rift in the Clouds”] [Friar’s Crag, Derwentwater] [The Head of Derwentwater] [Derwentwater and Skiddaw] [Borrowdale and the Bowder Stone] [Buttermere and Crummock Lakes] [Crummock Water—“Solitude”] [“The Devil’s Elbow”] [The Head of Ullswater] [Ullswater from Silver Point] [Stybarrow Crag, Ullswater] [Striding Edge, Helvellyn] [Kirkstone Pass and Brothers’ Water] [Coniston Water and the Old Man] [Wastwater—“A Gathering Storm”] [An Ascent of the Needle, Great Gable] [Furness Abbey]

Beautiful Lakeland.