church, farms, and seats are almost enveloped in groves of trees, scatterings of which dilate upon the bending steeps high towards their summits. The Island is a pretty feature; Holling Grove and Allan Bank are pleasant and cheerful objects, and the irregular surfaces at the Hov and Butterlip How are happily placed between the eve and Helm Crag, a mountain swelling bol lly from the valley; its fine form is exquisitely broken with rocks, and not only. here, but from all parts of the dale is a good painter's stuly: on its summit are two prodigious stones of different sizes, called the Lion and the Lamb: on the right arises, in much gran ler, Seat Sandal, between which and H In Crag appears the zig-zag road from Amblesi le to Keswick. Silver How bounds the vale on the left, and the fells from Rydal up to Fairfield on the right: this place is sometimes called West's Station, and is described in Mr. West's guide to the lakes. From the point where the spectator stands to the lake, it is a steep hill, partly covered with wood; this scene is deficient in foreground; but to the same. scene, from the opposite side of the road, may be added an excellent foreground, by which the nearer shores of the lake and all intermediate matter may be cut off at pleasure.

Strangers have done more for the beauty of Grasmere, by their forbearance in felling native trees, than injury by the introducton of exotics. Mr. King has an extensive and a valuable spriggerv, but it is on the side of the hill above his house, and in some degree, shut out from the eye