Woo DCOCKS.
mere into Winander, beginning their migration with the firft floods
after midlummer; and ceafe on the firft fnows. The inhabitants’
o f the country take great numbers in wheels at that feafon ; when
it is their opinion that the eels are going into the fait water ; and
that they return in fpring.
The roads are excellent amidft fine woods, with grey, rocks,
patched with mofs riling above. Itj one place obferved a Holly
park, a traft preferved entirely for lheep, who are fed in winter
with the croppings. Wild cats inhabit in too great plenty thefei
woods and rocks.
The Lichen Tarlareus, or ftone rag, as it is called here, incrufts
in oft of the ftones: is gathered for the ufe o f dyers by the Pea-
fants, who fell it at a penny per.pound, and can colleit two ftone
weight of it in a day.
Reach Graitbwaite, the feat of Mr. Sandys-, and from the cats
craig, an eminence near the houfe, have an extenfive view up and
down the water o f Winander, for feveral miles. The variety of
beautiful bays that indent the ihore; the fine wooded rifings that
bound each fide ; and the northern termination - o f lofty fells
patched with fnow, compofe a fcene the moft pidlurefque that can
be imagined.
See on the plain part o f thefe hills numbers o f fpringes for
woodcocks, laid between tufts of heath, with avenues o f fmall
ftones on each fide, to direit thefe. fooliih birds into .the fnares,
for they will not hop over the pebbles. Multitudes are taken in
this manner in the open weather; and fold on the fpot for fix-
teen pence or twenty pence a couple (about 20 years ago at fixpence
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pence or feven pence) and fent to the all-devouring capital, by
the Kendal ftage. .
After breakfaft, take boat at a littte neighboring creek, and
have a moft advantageous view of this beautiful lake, being favored
with a calm day and fine Iky. The length o f this water
is about twelve miles; the breadth about a mile ; for the width is
unequal from the multitudeof pretty bays, that give fuch an elegant
finuofity to its Ihores, efpecially thofe on the eaft, or the
Weftmoreland fide. The horns of thefe little ports projeft far,
and are finely wooded; as are all the leffer hills that Ikirt the
water. , ,
A t a diftance is another feries of hills, lofty, rude, grey and
mofiy; and above them foar the immenfe heights of the fells o f
Conenfton, the mountains- o f Wrynofe and Hard-knot, and the conic
points of Langdetrfdh ; all except-the firft in Cumberland.
The waters are difcharged out o f the South end, at Newby-
bridge, with a rapid precipitous current, then affume the name
o f Leven, and after a courfe of two miles fall into the eftuary
called the Leven fands. The depth of this lake is various, from
four yards and a half to feventy-four, and, excepting near the
fides, the bottom is entirely rocky: in fome places are vaft fuba-
queous precipices, the rock falling at once perpendicular, for the
depth of twenty-yards, within forty o f the Ihore and the fame
depth is preferved acrofs the channel. The fall of the Leven,
from the lake to high water mark, is ninety feet; the deepeft part
of the lake a hundred and thirty-two beneath that point.
The boatmen direfted their courfe Northward, and brought us
by the heathy ifle of Ungbolm, and the.far proje&ing cape o f
Rowlinfon’s