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casional occurrence in Derwentwater.* Here 

 are our ponies ; let us mount and be off. 



AMICUS. As you have kindly done before, 

 pray, as we proceed, point out to me any object 

 specially worthy of notice, remembering that 

 I am a stranger here, and that all we see 

 I shall see for the first time. 



PISCATOK. I shall keep in mind your 

 wishes ; and, in return, tell me your impres- 

 sions. 



AMICUS. That I will do; and to begin, I 

 may remark, I little expected so soon to pass 

 into a country with so gentle and pleasing 

 an aspect as this which, with the turn of the 

 road, we are just skirting. 



PISCATOE. It is the vale of Newlands, rich 

 and cultivated, more like a part of Kent than of 

 Cumberland. We shall presently quit it, and 

 be again in the midst of the genuine lake- 

 scenery. 



AMICUS. How just your late remark ! This 

 mountain turfy path we have been following 



* He died some months after this our visit, viz., in 

 December, 1856. Such was the respect in which he was 

 held by his fellow- townsmen, that on the day of his 

 funeral the shops in Keswick were closed. 



