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exhibit that sentiment of Nature which was hardly 

 known until Rousseau's writings had pervaded 

 Europe. 



Our English Lakes began to be overrun by tourists 

 late in the last century, as we learn from Scott 1 and 

 Wilberforce. 2 At first the visitors seem to have kept 

 mostly to the lower and safer ground ; the narrative 

 which follows marks the close of the unadventurous 

 age. By 1805 almost all the summits of the Lake 

 hills had become familiar to thousands of active 

 Englishmen. 



In the History of Cumberland, by William Hutchin- 

 son, 3 a highly-coloured description is given of an 

 ascent of Saddleback. Those who know the mountain 

 only on its Keswick side should understand that to 

 the S. and E. it is much more abrupt. Sharp Edge 

 might even be dangerous to an inexperienced climber 

 with a weak head. The summit is only 2,850 feet above 

 sea-level. The description follows : 



" A friend has indulged us with the following de- 

 scription of his view of Saddleback, and the curious 

 crater and lake there, where the lava of a vulcano is 

 unquestionably to be found in large quantities. His 

 tour was made in 1793. 



" He speaks with great respect, in the first instance, 

 of one Mr. John Graves, who gave him the earliest 

 description of those scenes, and excited his curiosity 

 to visit them ; and of Mr. Thomas Clement, a resident 

 of the skirts of the mountain, who attended him and-' 



1 Guy Mannermg, Chap. XVI. 



2 Life, Vol. I., p. 183. 



3 2 vols., Carlisle, 1794. See Vol. I., p. 423. 





