The mountains on the immediate head of the water are not so steep as those which border it on the sides half way down, but they are rich in wood. St. Sunday, or St. Sundian Crag, swells sublimely above them, and is a fine object from many parts of the valley; from Gowbarrow, on one margin, and Place Fell on the other side of the lake, the mountains gradually diminish into little hills, and from gigantic ruggedness to a soft verdant meadow and pasturage. At the foot of Ulls Water, where the lake has narrowed itself into the river Eamont, is Powley Bridge. Near the bridge, on the south or Westmorland side of the river, stands the village of Powley, which boasts a respectable inn, and which, during the fishing season, is greatly resorted to by fly fishers.

The lake of Ulls Water" has its name from Ulf, a name frequent in old time: Lyulf, (L'ulf), was the first baron of Greystock, to whom this lake did belong." Mr. Gilpin says, "the form of Ulls Water resembles a Z, only there is no angular acuteness in its line. Mr. Houseman the same, and Mr. Budworth says, "it is shaped like the letter Z, made by a bad penman. But Mr. Crosthwaite's map shews, that a child who should make such a Z, would not perform his task very badly. Messrs. Burn and Nicolson say, "it is a large mere of a great breadth and depth, wherein is great store of fish, as perch, trout, grey trout, (some even

* Burn, page 407. Gilpin, vol. 2. page 51. Budworth, 3d edition, page 327.

a yard long and thick in proportion), pikes, case, chars, eels, and skellies. The writer has always understood that in Ulls Water and Haws Water no pike is taken, and this has been supposed to be the cause of the trout being found there so large and so abundant. In Ulls Water the fish called char are greatly inferior to those of Coniston and Windermere. The Eamont, according to the history of Westmorland, takes its name, where, about half way between Goldrill Bridge and Ulls Water, Grizedale Beck joins that from Brother Water; but Mr. Houseman derives its source from Kirkstone, and perhaps rightly, for Kirkstone Beck is of a greater length than any other feeder of the lake: at Powley Bridge it is a considerable river, and divides the counties of Cumberland and Westmorland to its junction with the Eden, a few miles below Penrith. The Eamont and the Eden are rivers of extraordinary beauty; their banks are occasionally steep, rocky, and finely ornamented with wood: the Eden is the largest river in Cumberland, it passes many beautiful villages and gentlemens' seats, and lastly in slow and solemn majesty, it waters Carlisle. A few miles below that city the Eden enters Solway Frith. The Eden is well supplied with salmon, and more abundantly with fine trout than any other large river in the kingdom.

Having conducted the south country tourist from Ambleside to Patterdale, which lies at the head of Ulls Water, it is now necessary to to describe, for the accommodation of visitors

from the north and the east, the mode of reaching Patterdale on the banks of Ulls Water from Penrith.

From Penrith, each about five miles in length, there are two pleasant roads to Powley Bridge, both lying on the banks of the beautiful river Eamont. The Westmorland road is by Eamont Bridge, Yanwath, Sockbridge, and Tyrell; the Cumberland road by Dalemain, the seat of Edward Hasell, Esq.: the latter winds to the bridge, round the south end of Dunmallet; but those who mean to go direct to Patterdale or Ambleside, will not have occasion to deviate. The road from Powley Bridge meets that from Penrith on the Cumberland side of the Eamont, and the lake, about half a mile on the way to to Patterdale, after which it passes under Soulby Fell, a smooth green hill, and here diagonally across the lake from the road which runs near it, there is a very pretty view of cultivated land lying at the feet of rugged mountains. Advancing, between these and the water, the tasteful modern residence of John Stagg, Esq. appears, and on a turn of the road, Water Millock, a respectable old mansion, formerly the property of John Robinson, Esq. who, in the year 1769, was sheriff for Cumberland, arrests attention. Near this place, on the side of the lake, stood anciently a church, and there is now upon its site, a house known by the name of the Old Church. On each side of the road, for some distance, respectable farm-houses are seen, and near the lake, at the southern end of the church promontory, stands Hallsteads, the beautiful

and occasional residence of John Marshall, Esq. Hallsteads is built on a gentle eminence, and commands a most exquisite view of the lake. The Patterdale road is thence perceived, stretching over a promontory prettily ornamented with trees, over which the wooded lands of Gowbarrow and Glencoin display their "leafy pride." Helvellyn, swelling proudly above his neighbours, is a grand distant object, and Place Fell on one side, and the bold and rugged steeps of Yew Crag on the other, are the side screens to the admirable mountain scenery observed from the house.

Where Hallsteads is on the left, Gowbarrow Hall, a farm-house, belonging to the Duke of Norfolk is on the right, about a quarter of a mile from the road: from Gowbarrow Hall there is a rich view across the water, of cultivation, with Swarth and Hallin Fells rising from it.

From the top of a crag near a quarry, (from which Mr. Marshall got the stone of which his house is built), there is a most splendid scene of that vast pile of mountains arising from the lake to the lofty summit of Helvellyn. Place Fell on the left descends steeply to the water.

On a farming road from Gowbarrow Hall westward, the lake is seen from a rich foreground of oak trees.

From Hallsteads the public road runs at first near, and seldom far from the lake, till it again closely approaches it at Yew Crag. Yew Crag