RYDAL WATER, AND GRASMERE—p.30.
A comprehensive view of Lake Scenery is here presented, including the Lakes of Rydal Water and Grasmere, in connection with all the noble and picturesque objects in their vicinity.
The village of Rydal is situated on the north side of the Lake, and Rydal Hall, the magnificent seat of the Le Flemings, seems embosomed in a beautiful park that occupies the declining front of the mountain. Near to the principal gate of entrance, the cottage residence of the poet Wordsworth peeps forth from the woods, as if endeavouring to recall to memory a name that can never be forgotten. The distance, and the whole background of the landscape, is composed of that mountain-chain in which Langdale Pikes and Silver How are the most elevated and conspicuous.
