66 Different in poetical character, but not less beautiful and affecting, is this extract from Fidelity:" "The dog which still was hovering nigh, Repeating the same timid cry, This dog had been through three months' space A dweller in that savage place. Yes, proof was plain, that, since the day On which the traveller thus had died, The dog had watched about the spot, Or by his master's side: How nourished here through such long time He knows, who gave that love sublime, And gave that strength of feeling, great On the eastern side of Wythburn water is a rock, projecting into the lake, known by the name of "Clarke's Leap." It acquired the appellation from the circumstance of a person, bearing this name, having, in deference to the suggestion of his wife, precipitated himself into the mere. This singular instance of complaisance, it has been remarked, can find few, if any, parallels in ancient or modern times. SKIDDAW, FROM APPLETHWAITE,-CUMBERLAND. Applethwaite, a hamlet in the township of Under-Skiddaw, is situated on the south side of the mountain, at the end of "a deep and wild chasm;" and is distant from Keswick about a mile and a half towards the north. Ormathwaite Hall, in the immediate neighbourhood, belongs to Sir John Walsh, Bart., together with the extensive surrounding estate. In Applethwaite is a large woollen manufactory. Skiddaw, as seen in the illustrative view, is too distant to give a just idea of its stupendous height and extent. It will, however, form the subject of another Engraving; we may, therefore, refer to the present one as merely exhibiting, from a commanding point, the picturesque features of a mountain village : "Seemingly preserved From the intrusion of a restless world, By rocks impassable and mountains huge." AIREY FORCE,-CUMBERLAND. Airey Force, situated in a deep and winding glen, in the neighbourhood of Gowbarrow Park, is an extremely fine and picturesque object; contesting the palm of beauty with Stockgill Force. A delightful winding path leads up the rocky vale to the waterfall, and after making a sudden turn, so as to come into a nook of the glen, the visitor arrives in |