2o6 SPRINGS, RIVERS, CANALS, LAKES, 



The principal difference between the water of the ocean and that 

 of the Dead Sea, consists in this remarkable circumstance, (hat in 

 (lie latter the earthy muriates, which give the water its great sharp- 

 ness and bitterness, exceed the proportion of common salt 4^ times; 

 while, on the contrary, the common salt exceeds the others nearly 

 as much in the water of the ocean. 



[Thomson's Annals of Philosophy, Vol. /.] 



Ulszeater Lake, and the surrounding Scenery. 

 From Mr. Gray to Dr. Wliarton 



Aston, Oct. 18, 17f><7. 



I HOPE you got safe and well home after that troublesome night. 

 I long t;> hear you say so. For me, I have continued well, been so 

 favoured bv the weather, that mv walks have never once been hhi- 



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dered till yesterday (that is a fortnight and three or four days, and 

 a journey of mere than 300 miles). I am now at Aston for two 

 days. To-morrow I go to Cambridge. Mason is not here, but 

 Mr. Alderson receives me. According to my promise I send you 

 the first sheet of my journal, to be continued without end. 



Sept. 30. A mile and and a half from Brough, where we parted, 

 on a hill lay a great army enc imped : to the left opened a fine val- 

 ley with green meadows :md hedge-rows, a gentleman's house peep- 

 ing forth from a yrove of old trees. On a nearer approach ap- 

 peared myriads of cattle and horses in the road itself, and in all the 

 fields round me, a brisk stream hnrrv^g cross the way, thousands of 

 clean healthy people in their best party olorred apparel : farmers 

 and their families, esquires and their d<v';ht.-rs, hastening up from 

 the dales and down the fells from every quarter, glittering in the 

 sun, and pressing forward to join the throng. While the dark hills, 

 on whose tops the mists were yet hanging, served as a contrast to 

 this gay and moving scene, which continued for near two miles more 

 along the road, and the croud (coming towards it) reached on as far 

 as Appleby. On the ascent of the hill above Appleby the thick 

 hanging wood, and the long reaches of the Eden, clear, rapid, and 

 as full as ever, winding below, with views of the castle and town, 

 gave much employment to the minor: but now the sun was want- 

 ing, and the sky overcast. Oats and barley cut every where, but 

 not carried in. Passed Kirbythore, Sir William Dalston's house at 

 AcornBank, Whinriekl Park, Harthorn Oaks, Countess-Pillar, 



