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Yorkshire and Westmorland, is an excellent 

 trout stream, and one of the most pleasant 

 in this part of the country. Running for 

 the most part over a rocky channel, and fed 

 by mountain rills, its waters are remarkably 

 pure and bright. Proceeding downwards 

 from Sedbergh, the country becomes more 

 fertile as you descend ; and in the neighbor- 

 hood of Middleton, Underley, and Kirkby 

 Lonsdale, where the river winds through 

 verdant meadows, with its rocky margin 

 rendered still more beautiful from the over- 

 hanging trees, the scenery is in the highest 

 degree interesting ; worthy of the pencil of a 

 Poussin or a Claude, and not to be excelled 

 by many of the views which our artists travel 

 post through Germany, France, and Italy to 

 obtain, for the purpose of embellishing the 

 vapid pages of a fashionable annual. " Far 

 fetched and little worth," though an old 

 saw, is not worn out ; for every year presents 

 us with some freakish composition styled a 

 view on the Rhine, the Seine, at Milan, or 

 in Switzerland which is far inferior in point 



