A MISTY MORNING, NEWBY BRIDGE, WINDERMERE
THE ENGLISH LAKES
PAINTED BY A. HEATON COOPER DESCRIBED BY WM. T. PALMER PUBLISHED BY ADAM AND CHARLES BLACK LONDON MCMVIII
AGENTS IN AMERICA
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
64 & 66 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK
First Edition July, 1905
Second Edition October, 1908
CONTENTS
PAGE CHAPTER I [INTRODUCTION] 1 CHAPTER II [BY STEAM YACHT ON WINDERMERE] 9 CHAPTER III [BY WORDSWORTH’S ROTHAY] 30 CHAPTER IV [RYDAL AND GRASMERE] 36 CHAPTER V [ESTHWAITE WATER AND OLD HAWKSHEAD] 49 CHAPTER VI [CONISTON WATER] 60 CHAPTER VII [THE MOODS OF WASTWATER] 79 CHAPTER VIII [THE GLORY OF ENNERDALE] 98 CHAPTER IX [BY SOFT LOWESWATER] 106 CHAPTER X [CRUMMOCK WATER] 116 CHAPTER XI [BUTTERMERE] 124 CHAPTER XII [THE CHARMS OF DERWENTWATER] 137 CHAPTER XIII [BASSENTHWAITE] 156 CHAPTER XIV [THIRLMERE FROM THE MAIN ROAD] 165 CHAPTER XV [HAWESWATER AND THE BIRDS] 178 CHAPTER XVI [ULLSWATER, HOME OF BEAUTY] 185 CHAPTER XVII [MOUNTAIN TARNS] 203
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
[1. A Misty Morning, Newby Bridge, Windermere] Frontispiece FACING PAGE [2. Furness Abbey in the Vale of Nightshade] 4 [3. Windermere from Wansfell (sunset)] 8 [4. Swan Inn, Newby Bridge, Windermere] 12 [5. Near the Ferry, Windermere: Skating by Moonlight] 16 [6. The Old Ferry, Windermere] 20 [7. Old Laburnums at Newby Bridge, Windermere] 24 [8. Windermere and Langdale Pikes, from Lowwood] 28 [9. A Glimpse of Grasmere (evening sun)] 30 [10. Wild Hyacinths] 32 [11. Dungeon Ghyll Force, Langdale] 34 [12. Dove Cottage, Grasmere] 36 [13. Skelwith Force, Langdale] 40 [14. Sunset, Rydal Water] 42 [15. Grasmere Church] 46 [16. Esthwaite Water: Apple Blossom] 50 [17. An Old Street in Hawkshead] 52 [18. Sheep-Shearing, Esthwaite Hall Farm] 56 [19. Dawn, Coniston] 60 [20. Charcoal-Burners, Coniston Lake] 62 [21. Brantwood, Coniston Lake: Char-fishing] 64 [22. Coniston Village: the Old Butcher’s shop] 66 [23. Moonlight and Lamplight, Coniston] 68 [24. An Old Inn Kitchen, Coniston] 70 [25. The Shepherd, Yewdale, Coniston] 72 [26. Stepping-Stones, Seathwaite] 74 [27. Winter Sunshine, Coniston] 76 [28. Daffodils by the Banks of the Silvery Duddon] 78 [29. A Fell Fox-hunt, Head of Eskdale and Scawfell] 80 [30. Wastwater, from Strands] 82 [31. Wastwater and Scawfell] 84 [32. Wastdalehead and Great Gable (towards evening in autumn)] 86 [33. Wastwater Screes] 88 [34. Wastdalehead Church] 90 [35. Nearing the top of Styhead Pass, Wastdale] 92 [36. Wastdalehead, Wastwater] 94 [37. Ennerdale Lake at Sunset] 98 [38. The Pillar Rock of Ennerdale] 100 [39. Loweswater] 106 [40. The Old Post Office, Loweswater] 108 [41. Crummock Water, from Scale Hill] 116 [42. Crummock Water and Buttermere] 120 [43. Head of Buttermere] 124 [44. Honister Pass and Buttermere] 128 [45. The Borrowdale Yews (evening)] 132 [46. Lodore and Derwentwater (a summer’s morn)] 136 [47. Derwentwater, from Castle Head (a bright morning)] 138 [48. By the Shores of Derwentwater] 142 [49. Grange in Borrowdale (early morning)] 144 [50. Crosthwaite Church, Keswick] 148 [51. Druid Circle, near Keswick (moonlight)] 150 [52. Falcon Crag, Derwentwater] 152 [53. The Vale of St. John, near Keswick] 154 [54. Derwentwater and Bassenthwaite Lake, from High Lodore] 156 [55. Bassenthwaite Lake (a breezy morn)] 160 [56. Bassenthwaite Lake and Skiddaw] 162 [57. Raven Crag, Thirlmere] 166 [58. Thirlmere and Helvellyn] 168 [59. Haweswater] 178 [60. Shap Abbey] 182 [61. Ullswater, from Gowbarrow Park (a sultry June morn)] 186 [62. Ullswater, Silver Bay] 188 [63. Ullswater: the Silver Strand (afterglow)] 190 [64. Hazy Twilight, Head of Ullswater] 192 [65. A Mountain Path, Sandwick, Ullswater] 194 [66. Brougham Castle, Penrith] 198 [67. Angle Tarn, Esk Hause] 204 [68. Dalegarth Force, Eskdale] 206 [69. Blea Tarn and Langdale Pikes] 210 [70. A Sudden Shower, Blea Tarn] 212 [71. Kirkstone Pass and Brothers’ Water] 214 [72. Stepping-stones, Far Easedale, Grasmere] 216 [73. Little Langdale Tarn] 218 [74. Elterwater and Langdale Pikes] 220 [75. Seathwaite Tarn, Duddon Valley] 222