Excerpt from A Description of the Scenery in the Lake District, Intended as a Guide to StrangersMountains yield to none, however individually inferior they may be, owing to their being seldom seen in a detached point of view: although, on the other hand, they have thus the advantage of forming combinations at once grand and sublime, towering above each other, or rising in ridges like the mighty billows of the ocean.Their general covering is a rich green turf, affording excellent pasturage to large ocks of sheep. The brown of the dying fern and the pur ple hue of the heather add to the variety no less than the beauty of the tints. On some, rocks predominate others have their fronts torn and ploughed up by bursts and speats of rain, exposing and laying bare the soil.The vallies which lie between these masses, are not formed like those of Wales, by the sloping sides of the mountains meeting, so as to leave little room for anything but a terrace road and rugged bed of a. River; but they wind amongst the hills with intricate and abrupt turnings, and in the level bottoms, either a lake quietly rests, or wooded hows and little knolls, on which the cottages are perched, rise out of green meadows and smiling corn fields. It is a great recommendation also to these vales, that each has its peculiar character, no one taken as a whole, bearing much resemblance to any other.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books.

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