Volume 2 — Introductory material
Reading edition
DIRECTIONS AND INFORMATION FOR THE TOURIST.
Windermere.—Ambleside.—Coniston.—Ulpha Kirk.—Road from Ambleside to Keswick.—Grasmere.—The Vale of Keswick.—Buttermere and Crummock.—Lowes-water.—Wastdale.—Ullswater, with its tributary Streams.—Haweswater, &c.
DESCRIPTION OF THE SCENERY OF THE LAKES.
SECTION FIRST.
VIEW OR THE COUNTRY AS FORMED BY NATURE.
Vales diverging from a common Centre.—Effect of Light and Shadow as dependant upon the Position of the Vales.—Mountains,—their Substance,—Surfaces,—and Colours.—Winter Colouring.—The Vales,—Lakes,—Islands,—Tarns,—Woods,—Rivers,—Climate,—Night
SECTION SECOND.
ASPECT OF THE COUNTRY AS AFFECTED BY ITS INHABITANTS.
Retrospect.—Primitive Aspect.—Roman and British Antiquities.—Feudal Tenantry,—their Habitations and Enclosures—Tenantry reduced in Number by the Union of the Two Crowns.—State of Society after that Event.—Cottages,—Bridges,—Places of Worship,—Parks and Mansions.—General Picture of Society
SECTION THIRD.
CHANGES, AND RULES OF TASTE FOR PREVENTING THEIR BAD EFFECTS.
Tourists.—New Settlers.—The Country disfigured.—Causes of false Taste in Grounds and Buildings.—Ancient Models recommended.—Houses.—Colouring of Buildings.—Grounds and Plantations.—The Larch.—Planting.—Further Changes Probable.—Conclusion
MISCELLANEOUS OBSERVATIONS.
Time for visiting the Country.—Order in which Objects should be approached.—Views from the Heights.—Comparisons, how injurious.—Alpine Scenes compared with Cumbrian, &c.—Phenomena.—Comparative Estimate
EXCURSIONS
TO THE TOP OF SCAWFELL AND ON THE BANKS OF ULLSWATER
ODE.
THE PASS OF KIRKSTONE