Identifier: illustrateddescr00lond (find matches)
Title: An illustrated and descriptive guide to the great railways of England and their connections with the Continent
Year: 1885 (1880s)
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Subjects: Railroads -- Great Britain Europe -- Guidebooks England -- Guidebooks
Publisher: (London) : Morton & Co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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may be heardat the northern extremity of the lake. Honister Crag is one of the most remarkable sights in the excursion fromKeswick to Buttermere. We have passed by the eastern shore of Derwent-water into Borrowdale Valley, and climbed the Honister Pass, when, at thesummit, the Crag—the grandest in the district—rears its form on our left, analmost perpendicular wall of rock, to the height of 1,500 feet. The^ale ofButtermere now begins to break upon the sight, and the way down to it liesplainly before the traveller—a vast stony valley with a quarrymans hut hereand there, and the sheep feeding among the rugged slopes. There are nobridges, and the river that flows down the valley must several times be crossed. Sty Barrow Crag is an offshoot from Helvellyn. As we sail up Ulles-water, the middle and longest reach of the lake is closed in by Birk Fell onthe left, and on the right by Sty Barrow Crag, above which the dark browof the mighty Helvellyn rises (nr into the clouds. >3i ,^:
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lODOkl HON I STEP CF^^G CLIFTON. Cliftox is deservedly renowned as one of the most delightful places ofresidence in England. If Bristol is known as the metropolis of the West,and was for many centuries the second city in the British dominions, weneed not wonder that its beautiful suburb, enjoying all the advantages thatsituation and salubrity can afford, should have attracted to itself so largeand wealthy a population. Seated on the slopes and summit of a wide-spreading hill are elm-shaded roads, squares, and crescents, rising oneabove another, the most elevated and handsome of all being York Crescent,beyond which are the open Downs, the heights of St. Vincent, and the deepvalley of the Avon. The view, as we look down the gorge or chasm throughwhich the river runs, and which separates the counties of Gloucester and

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