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little common called "Browtop." It is half a mile before entering the town.

Walk to FRIAR'S CRAGG, and do not forget to ascend the swelling-field, close by, called "STRANDHAG." Just at the top of this gentle ascent, at the gate, are four or five views, as different as they are striking. What a spot for a house or a pavilion! "Oh! si angulus ille!" The lake seems to belong to the lawn.

Walk by the parsonage to ORMATHWAITE, or rather to the field on the left of the house.

Ride to BORRODALE, seeing Barrow and Lodoar water-falls, and proceed by Gatesgarth to BUTTERMERE. Here, while the dinner is being dressed, walk to CROMACK Lake; and see SCALE-FORCE, if you have time.

Return to Keswick by NEWLAnds.

The higher end of WAST-WATER is very grand, but I do not like to send you on so long a pilgrimage. There is a short horse-path over the STY-HEAD, but it introduces you to the scenery disadvantageously.

You can ride from Keswick to ULLESWATER Over

the mountain (saving some distance); but

you must

not lose your way, as I once did in a fog. Stop at LYULPH's Tower and, after sitting by the ARA-FORCE, go up the torrent nearly half a mile, crossing the wooden bridge, which hangs over the fall. A path has been made by Mr. Howard, who is good enough to allow strangers to walk there.

From the front of Mr. Marshall's place (Hallstead) is the noblest lake and mountain-view in the north.

You must ask to see the walks in Mr. Askew's grounds.

Near to PATTERDALE-HALL is a water-fall.

The slate-quarries command fine views, and, if you have time, you should walk up the GOLD-RILL to BECKSTONE'S FARM, to HARTSOP village, and to the HALL.

Having seen Wharfe-dale as you went, you had best return by WENSLEY-DALE, Hackfall and Studley, unless wish to see LIVERPOOL, and the railroad just commenced.

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You will have observed that I trouble you with few remarks and fewer exclamations, supposing that you will travel with your eyes open.

The most complete description of the lakes is Mr. Wordsworth's, but it has far higher merits than mere accuracy. Gray's letters, though he saw but little, are exquisite.

There are two mistakes often made by travellers in the North and on the Continent: that of loitering on the road to visit inferior places before they reach the Lakes, or the Alps, and that of wasting time and strength in hunting after novelty, instead of dwelling on the noblest scenes and getting them by heart. Much needless toil is undergone to fill the journal and the sketch-book. Madame de Stael complained to me, at Coppet, that she was often annoyed by travellers, who, as they had nothing to say to her, must have come merely to record the visit in their diaries, or to add a paragraph to their letters.

ON POVERTY.

IN De Rulhière's Anecdotes of the Revolution in Russia, there is a short story exemplifying that decay of the ancient respect for rank, and that growth of a regard for wealth, so observable of late in most parts of the world.

ODART, a Piedmontese conspirator for Catherine, used to say, "I see there is no regard for any thing I will have. I would go

and

money

"but money, "this night and set fire to the palace for money; "and when I had got enough, I would retire to my 'own country, and there live like an honest man More than once the Empress offered him a title: "No, Madam, I thank you" said Odart; "money,

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He did get money, went to Nice, and there he is said to have lived as became a gentleman.

Since this over-estimate of wealth is almost universal, it can be no wonder that the rich are so vain

and the poor so envious. I know that it is only repeating the tritest of common-places to observe that both exaggerate its advantages.

"Je lis au front de ceux qu'un vain faste environne,

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Que la Fortune vend ce qu'on croit qu'elle donne"

It must, however, be owned, that the greatest are willing enough to consider the humblest as their fellow-creatures, when they stand in need of their help. A prince in danger of being drowned would not wonder at being saved by the humanity of a common sailor, and a general, before a battle, addresses his brave fellow-soldiers" Indeed many persons do the poor the honour of expecting them to be spotless. Too often is it deemed a good excuse for refusing them alms that they have failings like our own.

There are many advantages in this variety of conditions, one of which is boasted of by a Divine, who rejoices that, between both classes, "all the holi

days of the Church are properly kept; since the "rich observe the feasts, and the poor observe the "fasts "

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