COLLOQUY V. 

 Ennerdale Lake. Lake-fishing continued. 



AMICUS. 



AM charmed with this lake, and 

 not a little pleased with our drive 

 here. Karely, in so short a space, 

 have I witnessed greater and more 

 sudden transitions of scenery. First, on leaving 

 Wasdale-head, and arriving at the pretty 

 village of Strands in Nether- Wasdale, though 

 little more than three miles distant, we had 

 left behind the wild and grand, the pastoral 

 and mountain, for the comparatively tame and 

 cultivated, a cheerful hilly country, with suf- 

 ficiency of wood, a good proportion of arable 

 land, now in its harvest glory, and no want 

 of substantial farm-houses, with here and there 

 a house of greater pretensions, denoting the 

 well-kept country gentleman's residence. Next, 



