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within which lies Hawes "Water. The park has 

 some fine old trees; and the number and size of 

 the yews in the grounds will strike the stranger. 

 But lasting injury was done to the woods by the 

 hurricane of 1839, which broke its way straight 

 through, levelling every thing in its path. On the 

 road from Askham to Bampton, the high grounds 

 of Lowther present on the left a nearly straight 

 line of great elevation, along which runs the park- 

 wall, almost to the extremity of the promontory. 

 From a distance, it looks the most enviable position 

 for a park that can be imagined. 



Hawes Water lies about four miles from Askham. 

 It is little more than three miles long, and about 

 half a mile broad. One side is richly 

 wooded ; the other nearly bare ; and a 

 pair of bold promontories threaten to cut it in two, 

 in one part, where the passage is only two or three 

 hundred yards wide. Near this point is the little 

 village of Measand, a pleasant, cmiet place where 

 lodgings may be had, and whence the ascent of 

 High Street may be made. Round the head of the 

 lake cluster the great mountains of Harter Fell, 

 High Street, Kidsty Pike, and others, leaving 

 space among the skirts for the exquisite little valley 

 of Mardale. Those who are able to obtain one 

 of Lord Lonsdale's boats for the traverse of the 

 lake may think themselves fortunate ; for this is, 

 of course, the most perfect way of seeing the 

 surroundings of so small a sheet of water : and all 

 other persons are deprived, by prohibition, of the 

 means of doing so. There are some good houses on 

 the shores and at the further end ; but the occu- 

 pants who live on the very brink are not allowed to 



