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the lake, overlook it in gloomy silence, 

 while their shadows cast upon the waters, 

 communicate to them a darker hue. For 

 exciting a sensation of the sublime none of 

 the other lakes can equal this part of Ulls- 

 water. Derwent and Windermere, with 

 their verdant isles and woody banks, are 

 lovely on a clear day, either at morn, noon- 

 tide, or eve ; and the masses of rock at the 

 head of Derwent, which appear to close 

 the pass up Borrowdale, are grand and im- 

 pressive ; but when seen from the lake 

 they fail, in consequence of their more remote 

 distance, to excite those feelings, bor- 

 dering upon awe, which are experienced in 

 rowing near the towering cliffs that overlook 

 the upper part of Ullswater. Should the 

 tourist be paddling his light skiff on this 

 part of the lake at the commencement of a 

 thunder-storm, as once happened to the 

 writer, let him directly lay in his oars, that 

 nothing may divert his mind from the con- 

 templation of the scene ; composing himself 



