16 Sournal, fe, Remarks on 4s A 
myfelf. Faticue left me no faftidioufnefs, 
and I fhould have flept founcly but for 
the ferenade of the fign, creaking juft 
againft our window. We felt, however, 
the full value of common comforts, and 
role, if net more refrefhed than at home, 
at Jeaft more thankful for its accommoda- 
tions, The iron-pot, with whey-porridge, 
and the ftick in the centreereét againft the 
pot hook, did not tempt us to flay to 
brezk faft, and we fet out very early. We 
found the fcenery that furrouned us, wild, 
dreary, gracd: the pafturage lefs beauti- 
ful, lefsduxuriant. Dunmail-raife,a rude 
mals of fiones thrown together to comme- 
morate the defeat and fall of the lait king 
of Cumberland, marks the boundary of 
‘the two counties ; and, as it was too dark 
to notice thefe the preceding evening, this 
was. the firft opportunity we had of mark- 
ing the precife features of Cumberland. 
Clouds gathered on the mountains, .and 
the ftorm ‘furrounded us ; but the view on 
which we featted, after afcending the hill, . 
sarmile before we reached Kefwick, would 
bave compenfated for. any ftorm that had 
not endangered life. The moft. glowing 
rainbow, of the moft perfect form, and of 
a breadth much more expanded than any I 
had ever beheld before, flung its airy arch 
completely over the town, refting one of 
its points on the adjacent lake, and the 
other at the foot of the oppofite mountain. 
In the centre you beheld the town beyond 
the church, and Baffenthwaite water, the 
»whole environed by ftupendous mountains, 
with the auguft Skiddaw in their number. 
Aftera comfortable breakfalt, of which 
we-fteod in: great need, we took a guide, 
and a boat, and fet out on the lake. Its 
waves: were confideiably agitated, clouds 
refted.on the mcuntains,-and appeared to 
threaten! {tcirms, but ne common fterm,. no 
tale of “ bottom winds,’’* could in thefe 
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* Every thing here.is in the grand ftyle. 
The very elements when they domifchief, 
keep in unifon with it, and perform all their 
operations with an airofdignity. ' Upon fome 
‘of the mountains, particularly on. Crofs-fell, 
‘a blaft, called ib the country “* a helm-wind,”’ 
Will formetimes arife fuddenlyy of a nature fo 
violent, that nothing can-withitand its torce. 
The experienced mountaineer, as he traveries 
thote: wild regions, -forgfeeing its approach, 
fails on the ground, ana‘lets it pais over him; 
its'rage is momentary; and the air inftantly 
fettles into its former calm. The lake is 
fubject to fumething of the {ime kind of-emo- 
tion ; which the inhabitants of the country 
call, ** bottom-wind.” *Often, when ail is 
calm and reipiendent around, as the boat is 
plying ‘its Ready way along the glafiy lake, 
‘nominations, 
2s Sketch of Plymouth. { Augui 15 
moments of high. enthufiafm which.the 
{cene infpired, bave awakened any thing 
like fear ; every common paffion feemed ab- 
forbed,.and the foul left to all that admi- 
ration and delight could beftow. Even the 
childith fooleries with which falfe tafle has 
injured one of the mof beautiful iflands on 
thelake, are infufficient forany confiderable 
time to difcompofe the elevated tone of mind 
that the fcene infpires. The varied view of 
the mountains, which failing on this fweetly 
-embofomed lake affords, no pen, no pen- 
cil, could adequately defcribe. We alight- 
ed .at another fpot belonging to P—, leis 
injured than the former. Behind the houfe, 
the rockis richly ornamented with wood, 
through the midft. of which nature has 
formed one of thofe interefiing eafcades 
which add fuch.a noble oxpament to this 
country. ~Secluded.amcngft the trees, is a 
fmal] building, intended for the refidence of 
a beimit, whon, it is.afferted, the proprie- 
tor of the eftate advertifed for-a few years 
fince;.and on whom be vffcred to fettle one 
hundred pounds per annum, could any per- 
fon be found-who would confent to the con- 
ditions, of never fhaving, paring his nails, 
or {peaking to any human being, for feven 
years! But the hermitage is {till unoceu- 
pied, and its.emptinefs.may remind the 
owner, that man-kind, however.defettive 
in the art of promoting each other’s hap- 
pinefs, have. not altogether forgatten that 
‘¢ true felf-love, and focial, are the fame.”* 
(To be concluded in our next.) 
To the Editor.of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
ie your, laft Magazine your Correfpon- 
Ji dent, A. A. in his Sketch of the Pre- 
dent, State of Society and Manners in Ply- 
mouth, has the following paragraph, 
‘*Religion has its. partifans of various. de- 
The churches are «few in 
proportion to. the. inhabitants, and .of 
-ceurfe the clergy..Sectanies are numerons. 
If the .powulation of a.place is.fo large, 
that the churches cannot contain the peo- 
ple, this muft be a natural confequence ; ° 
on-which I. begvleave to. make a few, ob- 
fervaiions. } He certainly is .miftaken, 
when. he endeavours. to give the caufe of 
different. Jentiments .in refigion, and the 

the boat-man. will defcry at a diftance a vio- 
lent ebullicion of the water. , He will fee it 
heave and {well;° forced upwards by fome 
internal convulfion; and fuffering all the 
agitation of a’itorm. “But as feon as the con- 
fined air has fpent all‘ its ‘force, the agitated 
furface fublides, and dies away in leflening 
circles, ‘GILPIN, 
various 
