52 ARA FORCE. 



Ullswater has two bends, and is shaped like a 

 relaxed Z. , At the first bend, the boat draws to 

 shore, below Lyulph's Tower, an ivy-covered little 

 castle, built for a shooting-box by the 

 iyulphs tower, late Duke of Norfolk; but it stands 

 on the site of a real old tower, named, it is said, 

 after the Ulf, or L/Ulf, the first Baron of Greystoke, 

 who gave its name to the lake. Some, however, 

 insist that the real name is WolPs Tower. The 

 park which surrounds it, and stretches down to the 

 lake, is studded with ancient trees ; and the sides 

 of its water-courses, and the depth of its ravines, 

 are luxuriantly wooded. Vast hills, with climbing 

 tracks, rise behind, on which herds of deer are occa- 

 sionally seen, like brown shadows from the clouds. 

 They are safe there from being startled (as they 

 are in the glades of the park) by strangers who 

 come to find out Ara Force by following the sound 

 of the fall. Our tourist must take a guide to this 

 waterfall from the tower. 



He will be led over the open grass to the ravine, 

 and then along its wooded sides on a pathway 

 above the brawling stream, till he 

 comes to a bridge, which will bring 

 him in full view of the fall. As he sits in the cool 

 damp nook at the bottom of the chasm, where the 

 echo of dashing and gurgling water never dies, and 

 the ferns, long grasses and ash sprays, wave and 

 quiver everlastingly in the pulsing air ; and as, 

 looking up, he sees the slender line of bridge 

 spanning the upper fall, he ought to know of the 

 mournful legend which belongs to this place, and 

 which Wordsworth has preserved : — In the olden 

 times, a knight who loved a lady, and courted her 



