The Old Man; or, Ravings and Ramblings round Conistone — John Shaqi
The Old Man; or, Ravings and Ramblings round ConistoneGibson, Alexander Craig
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The Old Man; or, Ravings and Ramblings round Conistone
Gibson, Alexander Craig
Coniston (Cumbria, England) -- Description and travel; Lake District (England) -- Description and travel
promontory covered with bright verdure, and tipped, or fringed, with
low spreading wood, running out, as it seems from the Water Head,
into the very middle of the lake. It is the Hall Point; the grounds
lying between it and Hawthwaite, and extending from the water side to
the tops of the heights more than a mile to the westward, form the
ancient deer-park, which possesses such a luxuriant and widely-extended
covering of natural timber, as might gladden the hearts of those who
affect to hold that any utilitarian interference with nature tends
grievously to degrade or destroy the romantic characteristics of lake
scenery. The Hall itself is concealed by the upper arm of the bay,
with the trees and neat, but singular and high, steep-roofed edifice
upon it. The said building is a boat-house belonging to “The Thwaite,”
a handsome residence upon the southern declivity of the richly-wooded
eminence to your right, over which you may note “The Old Man,”
anciently, and more correctly, “Alt Maen” (British),
“Whose ridgy back heaves to the sky,”
and looks, from this window, something like part of the back and head
of a huge elephant, with his trunk slightly extended and a wart on his
forehead.
[Sidenote: GROUNDS, FELLS, AND VILLAGE.]
You had better now take a boat and row a mile or two down the lake, and
row yourself, or, if you are lazy, at least sit with your face to the
stern, and fresh beauties will open upon your enraptured gaze at every
stroke of the oars.
[Sidenote: “TIME’S CHANGES.”]
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