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       [Illustration: A MISTY MORNING, NEWBY BRIDGE, WINDERMERE]




                           THE ENGLISH LAKES
PAINTED BY A. HEATON COOPER • DESCRIBED BY WM. T. PALMER • PUBLISHED BY
               ADAM AND CHARLES BLACK • LONDON • MCMVIII


                       [Illustration: Lotus Logo]

                           AGENTS IN AMERICA
                         THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
                     64 & 66 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK

                     First Edition    _July_, 1905
                   Second Edition    _October_, 1908




                                CONTENTS


                                                                    PAGE

                                  CHAPTER I
  INTRODUCTION                                                         1

                                  CHAPTER II
  BY STEAM YACHT ON WINDERMERE                                         9

                                 CHAPTER III
  BY WORDSWORTH’S ROTHAY                                              30

                                  CHAPTER IV
  RYDAL AND GRASMERE                                                  36

                                  CHAPTER V
  ESTHWAITE WATER AND OLD HAWKSHEAD                                   49

                                  CHAPTER VI
  CONISTON WATER                                                      60

                                 CHAPTER VII
  THE MOODS OF WASTWATER                                              79

                                 CHAPTER VIII
  THE GLORY OF ENNERDALE                                              98

                                  CHAPTER IX
  BY SOFT LOWESWATER                                                 106

                                  CHAPTER X
  CRUMMOCK WATER                                                     116

                                  CHAPTER XI
  BUTTERMERE                                                         124

                                 CHAPTER XII
  THE CHARMS OF DERWENTWATER                                         137

                                 CHAPTER XIII
  BASSENTHWAITE                                                      156

                                 CHAPTER XIV
  THIRLMERE FROM THE MAIN ROAD                                       165

                                  CHAPTER XV
  HAWESWATER AND THE BIRDS                                           178

                                 CHAPTER XVI
  ULLSWATER, HOME OF BEAUTY                                          185

                                 CHAPTER XVII
  MOUNTAIN TARNS                                                     203




                         LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS


  1. A Misty Morning, Newby Bridge, Windermere            _Frontispiece_
                                                             FACING PAGE
  2. Furness Abbey in the Vale of Nightshade                           4
  3. Windermere from Wansfell (sunset)                                 8
  4. Swan Inn, Newby Bridge, Windermere                               12
  5. Near the Ferry, Windermere: Skating by Moonlight                 16
  6. The Old Ferry, Windermere                                        20
  7. Old Laburnums at Newby Bridge, Windermere                        24
  8. Windermere and Langdale Pikes, from Lowwood                      28
  9. A Glimpse of Grasmere (evening sun)                              30
  10. Wild Hyacinths                                                  32
  11. Dungeon Ghyll Force, Langdale                                   34
  12. Dove Cottage, Grasmere                                          36
  13. Skelwith Force, Langdale                                        40
  14. Sunset, Rydal Water                                             42
  15. Grasmere Church                                                 46
  16. Esthwaite Water: Apple Blossom                                  50
  17. An Old Street in Hawkshead                                      52
  18. Sheep-Shearing, Esthwaite Hall Farm                             56
  19. Dawn, Coniston                                                  60
  20. Charcoal-Burners, Coniston Lake                                 62
  21. Brantwood, Coniston Lake: Char-fishing                          64
  22. Coniston Village: the Old Butcher’s shop                        66
  23. Moonlight and Lamplight, Coniston                               68
  24. An Old Inn Kitchen, Coniston                                    70
  25. The Shepherd, Yewdale, Coniston                                 72
  26. Stepping-Stones, Seathwaite                                     74
  27. Winter Sunshine, Coniston                                       76
  28. Daffodils by the Banks of the Silvery Duddon                    78
  29. A Fell Fox-hunt, Head of Eskdale and Scawfell                   80
  30. Wastwater, from Strands                                         82
  31. Wastwater and Scawfell                                          84
  32. Wastdalehead and Great