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THE Et4G.US3 LAKE R MON
Acts scenic Charfrts-'Altto:ci:c ivitet
Englishm
..Doe Archite
tiee
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Haloes and tg; ayes of 'orb
nod southey.
To 'a man born in Arne ica,, Whose
owledge of England lies i ore i the
Sphere of her intellectual, n her coin-.
mercial or material greatne. s, an who
desires to see the homes an haunts of
Some of her greatest noat$,: ; o district is
; ore attractive than that known as " the
Lake Country," !which lies withirs the
three Counties of Cumberlind, West-
moreland and Lancaster.,
Worth, Coleridge' and. Sout
itmvirate of the Modern tee
Quincey, the English (
:and, Dr. Arnold' of lingb3
drank in their inspiration.
is gathered in wondrous
some of the loverest scenery
in the world. La, -es Winderi
Grassmere and. Derwentwat3r, with th
encloatng mountaiu.s—Lou hrigg, Feiij
Nab-Seaur, Helm Crag, ,.;ilver How,
Helvellyn and. Skiciclaw, h the poetic
associations corinectecl the,m, are
ehatmed. names to the lov r of nature
literature doubly at -
seeking res and health
excitement
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ten track of
widen, we
and day af-
Vindermere.
Railsvay. 1
Is of
The
orth
ere Words-
ey—the tri -
tie dynasty
ilium eatet,
, lived and
Here, too,
ombination
to be. found
ere, Rydal,
and. 'of English
tractive to those
ful inspiration. asVay froni th
' and noise of great cities.
- ; Leaving therefore the ibe
travel fro -m. Liverpool to
f` booked." ourselves, the se
ter landing, a,ncl
4)1a- the great Caledonian
need not describe the novel. sensation of
entering an English rail -Way carriage—
, Snore _resembling a large ' old-fashioned.
'coach. than our American.• ars, nor the
exceeding picturesqUe actei of the
country through ,which We ere Whirled,
with, its soft green fields i ,tersected by.
close-trimnaed :edges, an • neat stone
cottages peering out throng screeris.and
foliage., Though the fiest veek Au-
gust, the country_ was.- at sh and lux-
uriant as American fields, re in' June,
owing to the Petpetual nun tare of their
English climate. After,
hours, during which, in
- pages, we traversed some
emerged from. dur coupe a
station, to be Whirled. in.
mile and a half further to,
lage of Bowness, on the 1
lake. The solicitations of
Hotel," which had followed{ and confron
ed us at every point, in oldly flaunt]placards,
placards, conld not detain .is here, so
a As
drove to the landing, d amidst
crowd of tiny yachts and ayly cushion-
ed and. penuoned boats, el barked on la
little stearabarge bound for the upper end
of the lake. I ' :
The panorama that spr cl before andmoundus,
mound us, as we puffed a ong over the
marble water, !surpassed beauty our
fondest ilginings, tinge as they were
with. poeti and, ideal lutes Around the
head of the lake, distant a.out five miles
from BONiraessi towered. the majestic
mountains,' made classic, if not sa,erecl,
by poetic JassoCiations, ant cutting the
sky in a variety of plant sque outlines.
Prominent amopg these re th s majes-
tic horns Of the two Lan< dale Pikes, or
about three
hiding stop -
90 miles, we
Windermere
n m
onibus :a
he little vil-
order of ale
the " CroWn.
tg-
-ea
apt
roa
viq
ha h not anything t
th this vision of G
its one little isla,nd
spreading out into d
at
th
reached Grasmer by: the Langdaled,
d, which C011111aa do a most lovely
w of the lake and. valley. "Earth
o show more fair"
asmere lake, with.
ite grassy margin
rk green ineadjws
e the village stands,
frith its square anal
ts foot the quiet
he poet sleeps, and_
an mountains that
its upper end. whe
gray old church
sive tower, at
ch irch-yard. where t
all around the guard
w, tch over and set' off its loveliness.
he grave of Wordswerth lies in a
pa,
Q1
n
e
hi
ti
w
m
11
ts
-1
h
e
f,
et corner of the
rIted. by , Sinip
which are int
hurdiyard,
hurchd. -yard, anis
e black. slate -stone
ribed.' simply the
mes :
" William Won esvorth-1850.
, Mary Worclswo th-1859."
asides his wife, d within the sameelosurc,
closure, his loved sister Dorothy, and.
only daughter D ra, and her husband
e Scholar Edward Quillinan, and his
fe's sister Sarah Tutchinson, are laid
his side,—" in- humble hope that
rough Christ the I may together be
de partakers of t 6 eame blessed res -
rection." Near t em are the graves of
ro.young children f the poet, on the
a,clatone of .one ef Vhich Is the follow-
ginscription, evic etitly written :by the
her, and interes 'lag not only as a
autiful epitaph bi as evincing, svhat
sometimes b'e questioned, • the
angelical and. Ch istian faith of 'the
et
"Six- months to Six yes rs Added he remained
Upon this sinful earth, by sin was stained
o blessed Lord, wheat mercy then removed
A child whom every ey that looleel on loved,
Support us, teach us ct. pily to resign
W hat WO possess'd, nm nOw is wholly thine."
, A little behind these graves, as if
hinnbly craving a resting place near his
a, d his father's friends, lies poor Hartley
leridge, his menu eat a white marble
s ab, surmounted b a cross,- crown and
corns, with the i iseription, " By thy
c oss and passion, good. *Lord, deliver
uls !" A large old yew tree throws its
shadow over.these allowed graves, and.
limpid little bract - ripples and sings,
ose by, on its way'te the tranquil lake,
inch is but a fey steps distant, fit -
g companion. of .1 im,
"Who murmured nen the. running brooks
A music sweeter than heir own."
I ;
1 plucked afeW s nays of yew as me -
g, entoes of the spo , and, a daisy from
t e grave of Word worth, remembering
s own prophetic. erses t.
"Sweet sower! belik one day to have
pace upon thy poet's gravel"
The old church i
Best architecture,
and old hills • al
alraidst which it st
of the plainest and.
in keeping with the
d i humble dalesnien
nds. A portion of
is walls is said to 1 ave been built in the
ighth century. n one of the inner
'4ra.11s, over the pew which Wordsworth
ice occupied, is I -marble tablet with a
' ass -relief profile 'of the grave aud
oughtful face of he poet,' and. bearing
e following inscri ition :
" To the inemor of William Words-
orth, a true philo pher and. poet, who,
y he speciat gif of _Almighty God,
h ther he discour ed. on ina,n or nature,
ail'd not to lift up -the vheart to holy
ings ; tired not of maintaining the
ause of the poor and simple ; and so,
n perilous tim.es, yeas - anal up to be a
hief minister not Only of noblest poesy,
ut of ).ugh and sacred truth. This
inemorial is placed here by his friends
nd. neighbors, in t estimony of respect,
ffection and gratith.1d.e.
' Anno M. D. C. C. LL!'
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ly and. tumultuously behind, while the
sweet chimeof Bra ay church rose
musically from the valsey below, lye re-
turned in the twilight "to -cur little inn,
to depart early the ne t morning, on a
three h
ours' ride to Keswick, throng
li
some of ;the finest and. grandest scenery
of the whole region. 1 i
Traversing the ascending road to the
pass called. -` Dunmail Raise;" we soon
came under the shadow of .".drear Hel-
vellyn,' rising :3,000 feet into the air,
then passed the solitary and sunken lake
of Thin -mere, with its o-v-ershadowing
cliffs and crags crossel the entrance to
the svilcl and romanticlvale of St. John,
the scene of Scott's "Billal of Trier in ain"
and emerged at length on an erainenee
overlooking the vale and town of _Ka -
wick, with the lovely Derwentwater and
its girdle of mountains; among - which
Skiddaw rose like a monarch amid his
court, or like Mt. Wathington amid his
cabinet of hills.
Get,Hall, for 40 y
of Sout ley, occupies .
on the - auks of the
aspect of greater elega
of 'Wordsworth, as
tastes were more eleg
Crosthwaite church, s
the -poet lies buried,
. .
peaks, rising fax to the north ; on the
left, the -indented peak of Coniston Old
Mau, ancli nearer the dark holloW-bosom-
ed mass Of Fairfield. mon tain, -tatal just
under it t on either side, rab-Scaur and.
Rydal-Head, sivith Wu ell Pike and
the Kenimore range of hi s on the right.
Lower down toward tie smith, the
shores aSsumed a milder. cl aracter rising
in gentle eminences and clothleh with
luxuriant forests, from midst which
gleamed numerous villas and. cottages,
with here and there a, t wering castle
that gave a domestic, an.1, at the same
time, a romant c charm to the landscape.
cif
The last rays sunset w re fading from
the mountains when we landed at the pst from. the spirit and. verse of the poet.
little i an called " Waterl cad Hotel," at por, as one has truly said, "The most
the head of the lake, -Wh se modest and [beautiful nature is dead until a hu.man
quiet exterior promised -r pose and clam- Poul starts it to. life by flits living touch
fort within, a itromise 'ye ifi ed. by e'cpe- lad s3rrn.pathy. We, then see as we feel."
rience. After la plain but substantial r& The spirit of Wordsworth seems to
past, we sallied forth in he twilight for animate this whole region, and the
a walk to Ambleside, a le and a half v -hole valley teems with memorials
distant. l , 1 f the poet. There is scarcely ' a
One noticeable fcatui observed. by crag, a knoll,: or ' a rill which he has
travelers' in passing aloft English roads
and by Englisl homes, is the air of si-
0 a
pose and don" stic comfcrt which pre-
vails- everywhere, and, as'
this, the thoughtful care
ing finish, -wit* is besto
thing, howevcs rude, in c
unfinished and: externpor
of our westernlhomes am
idea.which seetas to govei
life is, that here families expect to lite
• permanently, fuid not n crely to stay,
a condition of
and painstalt-
-ecl on every-
ntrast with the
look of many
villages. The
a English home
and whatever is essent
comfort of life is worth
Hence the houses and:
built of stone or stucco,
set off with some archi
ment, or, at least, have
--softened and their nal- edness covered
. .
al to the real
proViding for.
ottages are all
and, tastefully
ectural adorn -
heir roughness
with shrubbery or clamb
winding lanes are bord
- straggling and unseemly
either with neatly trim
substantial stone o
ing ivy or oine
vine -Lien]. its clusters and hon
luxuriant wreaths ; while the wicket the annoyance of pourists. It was also
gates that occasionally open a path undergoing some repairs, which marred
through them across the 'elds' are speci- still more the impression such •a place
mens of ingenuit3 that show consider- might be expected to 'give. We looked
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red, not with
raiWences, but
ed' hedges or
er Which creep -
and. flowering
s its
ars the, residence
sightly. positi n
reta, ancl has n
sce than the ho e
is character ai
it t and, scholarl
here the body
s a very ancie
structure, built 400 yers before the Re-
formation, and. contain
antique relics. With i
a costly monument t
cophagstatute which is said
r with a whit
likeness, and inscribe
fitting epitaph in vers
Wordssivorth. In th
neath ai table of black
grave of Southey, and
ing simple inscription
"Here lies the body
L. L. 0., Poet Laurea
1774 ; Died Mar. 21,
years a resident of this parish. Alsd'of
Edith his wife, Born May 20, 1774: Died
Nov. lfi, 1837. ' I am theResurrection
'and th Life, saith th b Lord.' "
Mos
the su
SO Mlle
in the midst ef it. .Better than tit
rn
honors or marble mo rnuents, are 'th
everlasting ountai s that seem
watch ver their graves, and these la -
ti
cid la es in which their grand spiritual
forms and noble sentiments seem. re ec-
ted forever. - H. M. G.
cl
nt
some curious and
1 its wa)ls there is
Southey—a sar-
- arble reclining
o be an; admirable
with long and.
from the pen of
churchryard, be -
slate -stone, is the
upon it the follo
Riv-
of obett Southey,
e. Born Aug. 12,
1843. For forty
fitting is it tliat the poets wh
assing beauty of this region id
to farm and inspire should rest
ec1
se
to
The Heroic in Riel.
There is nothing of the heroic 'about M.
Reil. He does not appear to have pos-
sessed even ordinary courage. When the
Hudson Bay Company officials were I in -
is gang of th rty
lee -Fort Garryi no
prevent them, al-
though assistance was volunteered, land
the services of at least thirty pensioners of
the R.; C. Rifles could have been had on
the spot. M. Riel and his compaMons
walked. into Fort Garry, and the 'keys
were banded. to them' at once by the grin-
ning officials, who:treated the wholensat-
as an excellent joke or Canada. Wben-
ever M. Riel and his' " provisional gov-
ernment" had a cli
shovved the white fe
half-breeds demande
prisoners held in t e tort, 1 under the
threat of attacking he place. M. ;Mel
yielded at once. IN; hen the expedition
under Sir G-arnet W olseley penetrated. to
his lair, M. Riel a 1cl his "provisional
government" ran
"when private priva
.
robbed, or horses t
ant patriot and h
equally doughty
proved their tour
formed that he and
men Were about to s
attempt was made t
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d Est
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ince to fight, they
.her. The English
h. the release of the
It was worth a voyage across the At -
antic to stand by the grave of .such
an, and. within the himible church
here he so often belied m 'worship ; to
tread the walks; and look upon the
Genes consecrated by his genius. Beau- themselves. One
piful these lakes and mountains are,
they derive their chief beauty and inter- t
not embalmed in 'etse. - About a mile
from. G'rasraere, on an eminence opposite
the middle of the ake, is the "Wishing
Gate," sung by W rdsworth in the beau-
• tiful poem bearing that title. A little
further on, at the town end, stands the
plain and humble cottage -where the poet
lived. for many- years, and. -where many
of his best poems were composed. Here
he brought his young bride, and gather-
ed his friends, — Southey, Coleridge,
Lamb, Lloyd, WilSon,—,,about him. De-
Quincey, th a " inglish. opium eater,"
also lived here aft r him. Rydal Mount,
the latest residence of Wordsworth, is
situated in Rydal village, a small 'hamlet
resting in the hollow between Loughrigg
Fell a.ncl-Na*Scas r, near the lower end.
of Rydalmere. he poet's house, very
plain and rough h oking dwelling exter-
nally, stands a h tle way up the side of
Nab-Seaur on an . scending road leading
to Ryclall Hall, the seat of the DeFlem-
in,gs, surrounded. by an antique forest.
The place was closed to visitors, being
occupied by a man who evidently dreads
able power of invention.
ed feature of English
harmony that prevails
and the landscape.
glaring contrasts of colo
the dark brown o the s
castle blends easil with
surrounding shrubbery, 1
brow with its robe of fo
Another mark-
wellings is the
between them
o painful and
are visible, but
(sae cottage or
he green of the
ke a mountain's
ests. It seems
as if the dwellings had (rozon out of the
soil or rock, instead of
it, and were indig.enot'es
The same good taste iS
English love of flowers,
eye of the stranger' at; e
most every cottage haS i
plot, or, at least, its bo.
over the:wall at the little yeliowsplaeters:
ed house, girdled' with latch trees and.
lalnirmun • bushes and other thickly
growing shrubs axid -vines, and tried to
recall in imagination the presence and
form of the poe :pacing thoughtfully
these secluded t allts, while he med-
itated the verses which have made his
name imm.ortal. The whole aspect of
the place—plain, isaple and without or-
eing built npon.. nament, except -tliat which nature fur -
0 the cotuitrynieheds-and. the idensmanding prospect
ppatent in 'the front it of vale an lake and mountains
hicli strikes the beyond was eminently characteristic of
-ery. turn. Al- the man who, 111 his own words applied
s little garden -
of ;mignonette
and. other flowers station ed. hi the Win-
dows, and lending t che
most I are and, homely d
Ambleside is a sinall
village or market -town
of Wausfell, and sartou
all si,les exeept the ..outhwest.. The
sitinttion is one of great beauty, and. con-
sequently during the si timer is mucli.
rful grace to the
micile. .
nd. picturesque
ying at the foot
tiled by hills on
frequented. A new an
, .
church stunts m the den
The principal stained. gl
memorial to the poet 'Wordsworth, and
was presented by a mu fiber of friends
and admirers, both Eng
can. Ambleside is only
Grasmere, where Wrords\
and but one and a juar
Mount, for many years
the poet. In visiting
took a longer and more
for the sake of finer mou
beautiful stone
re of theivalley.
ss window is a
ish and Araeri-
four niles from
orth lies buried,
er from Rydal
he residence of
ese shrines we
ircuitous route
itain views, and
to another, "un—ed plain living with
high thinking," an to whom were vouch--
saled views of -11 , of nature; and of
huinan life. •eleva i and inspiring be-
yond those of ost all other bards.
Leaving reluctant this classic and beau-
tiful spot, we r t ned. to Ambleside,
passing on the w y, Fox -How, the em-
bowered and luxurjous home of Arnold.
whither lie so m1 h loved to return in.
the intervals of h school labors at Rug-
by, and where h widow lived- till her
death, a few mon 14s since:
It would. have . e -n delightful, indeed,
to have lingered ; thisenchanting re-
gion for many w-eks, -instead of a few
days, - t� have e plored all its classic
haunts and dran in all its inspiration.
But this could not be ;- so, after another
sail across the cry-tal bosom of Winder-
mere, and a darn er up the rbugh. sides
of Loughrigg Fel, from whose summit
we obtained a fin sunset view of the
lake, and the mo -tains towering grand -
4
ivay pell-mell. ;But
house h were to be
be stolen, this vali-
o, M. Riel, and his
M initters, of State,
de by doing it all
Mister confiscated a
fl • T 11 flU7
New wr-r,
ATIBIL 17,1874.
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All Pla n Glasswa e in Sets, Fruit Bowls, Preserve
Dishes,' Go lets, me Glasses, Scc.
ownsmans hrtse,i
obes.---Ration. '
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BRoCKTON NUBS
)ffer for sale a large an
STANDA_RD
rruit Trees,
lhoice Hardy Ever -grew*,
Tardy Roses,
;mall Fruits, &e.
ALFRED E. DENISON,
Orders left with Mr. Denisou
ttended to.
Marh, 1874,
cutter, and. buffalo
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& CO.,
RIES, TORONTO,
well selected stoek of
4ND DWARF
Ornamental Tres,
Flowering Shrr4bs,
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old stands formerly occupied by them
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We have on hand a
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invite inspects n.
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J. & Mr. GRANDY,
Zurich and
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THE
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MO1DAY,
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MAY,
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whol
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brick
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The
The work
on the
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mati
signe
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TENDERS WANTED.
ED TENDERS,' addreasod to tile
ed Secretary of Building Committee,
alge, I. 0.0. F., Seaforth, will be received
Saturday, 2th April, 1874, for
of a Brick Building on Main Stre
Scott's block. Plans and specificati
at C. Armstrong's Bookstore on an
th April. Tenders will be received
job or for each class of work separate
of cellar and foundation; sto
work, carpenter work, plastering and,
Allmaterial to be furnished by the eontractor.
*ork to be completed by the 21st of Otober.
to be paid for monthly as it progresses,
certificate of the architect. The contractor
two{ sureties for the due completion
ork. The lowest or any tender not ne
inlless satisfactory. Furthet
n may be obtained. from either of the
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• JOHN PA.YNE, Sc.
13E,LTTLE, Chairman Cora.
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Note Ths:
57 differe t Patterns in China and StOne Tea Sets to select from.
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t of Family Groceries throughout. Notwithstanding
ADVANCE
In a*nus' ber of the above me tioned goods especially Crockery, we will give our cus-
tomers the' benefit of our earl purchases, Thereby maintaining the reputation we
have always held for selling g od goods at the lowest possible figures.
EGGS and otlerProdu
Butter,
e taken in exchange at the highest market price.
E. HICKSON & Co.
APRIL 17 1874.
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We have 1chF
ith great car.
in a large increase
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FANCY
This is One of our 7nost
tritly -con-fined to ourseh
.31es, Black and_ Colored St
Plain .and Figured Lustre,
Goods in all the new shade,s..
'FRE
French Merino, French.
Bought at fully 25 per ;ee
black Dr ap de Lons, Mac
Dress Silks, full stook, Mae
nets, Japanese Robes, Jap
Velveteens, Patent Velvets.
tion to our stock of SirkVe
French Wove, Royal Lid
Ffiance.
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PLAIN AND
BLACK LUSTS ---Sp
a special make superior in
remorkable for its 4ish 0.11i
fold, Black' Latres, duiC
Coour,gs, Black Italian „s
131ik Russel Cord, Black P
Plain Circassian, Moreens,
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TAPESTR1
Paisley Long Shawls,
Square Shawls, Black Gre
Fancy Long Shawls, Ind*
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VELVETEEN
GAMBRO
Striped and Checked, D
hroons and Brown.