ijQ ' europ'ean lakes. Jep^'iO 
■where exceed a mile. It is in some parts of* '"a? ;t '* ' 
its bottom is one continued rock, with wb'<^ . 
manner paved. ., j in 
The Lake of Derwent Water, three ^ 
and half a mile in width, lies in the / 
Keswick. Out of this lake rise five islands, P 
covered either with tmf or trees, add greatly ly 
of its most picture.squo appearance. StiU 
north-west, the river Derwent, after ruiuiin^ ^ |,,oy 
space in a narrow channel, spreads itself ^ 
narrow lake, called Bassenthavaite, at ' 
cf which is a remarkable water-tall named Lo ijK' 
Lock Lomond is the most beautiful ot fj 
Scotland, it is thirty miles in length, f 
bi-eadth ten miles. Its greatest depth, lil; 
Firkin point and Ben Lomond, is a /, 
twenty fiithoms. The first view of this gH # 
from an elevated spot named Tarbat, presen » to" , 
serpentine winding amid lofty hills, .iici>''’^it 
north, are barren, black, and rocky, ‘ j. j, f 
their shade that contracted part of the 
west side, the mountains, the d, "'‘'yo 
lofty, naked, and craggy, are clothed benea ey 
of oak quite to the waters edge._ ToWO /ptij''/ 
mountains are equally high, but their sunu’ V f,r 
even ridge, parallel to the lake, except wher ^ y 
like Saul amidst his companions, overtops i ^ y 
lastly, the eastern boundary is formed £>r < ^ 
Grampian hills. ' i... vi'^' 
the , 
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The first scene which presents itself to 
admiring spectator, is separated „io5t y ^ 
by two headlands covered with trees, jnaos^ly 
which is Firkin point. Oivpassing this cape an .sO*'/ 7 
bursts at once on the view, varied with a ^ flat 
ties of nature. Immediately beneath 'J, ,ds 
with wood and corn : beyond, the heat ‘ ^ ^piji yy 
the purple uiuini, uit . — , e- 
dispersed over thu lake ; some ot the sa_ 
as the little capes, and wooded in the same 
