HAYSWATER, FROM THE TOP OF HIGH STREET MOUNTAIN,
WESTMORLAND.

Hayswater Tarn, in the environs of lake Ullswater, is more extensive than most of the other tarns, and is much frequented by trout anglers. It lies under the north-west side of High Street. The stream from this elevated lake passes Low Hartshope, and, uniting with the waters from the diminutive Brother Water, discharges itself into lake Ullswater. This mountain retirement is illustrative of a passage in the "Excursion :".

"Many are the notes

Which in his tuneful course the wind draws forth

From rocks, woods, caverns, heaths, and dashing shores;

And well those lofty brethren bear their part
In the wild concert-chiefly when the storm
Rides high; then all the upper air they fill
With roaring sound, that ceases not to flow,
Like smoke, along the level of the blast
In mighty current; theirs, too, is the song

Of stream and headlong flood that seldom fails;
And, in the grim and breathless hour of noon,
Methinks that I have heard them echo back
The thunder's greeting; nor have nature's laws
Left them ungifted with a power to yield
Music of finer frame; a harmony,

So do I call it, though it be the land

Of silence, though there be no voice: the clouds,
The mist, the shadows, light of golden suns,
Motions of moonlight, all come thither, touch,
And have an answer-thither come, and shape,
A language not unwelcome to sick hearts

And idle spirits; there the sun himself,

At the calm hour of summer's longest day,

Rests his substantial orb; between those heights

And on the top of either pinnacle,

More keenly than elsewhere in night's blue vault,

Sparkle the stars, as of their station proud.
Thoughts are not busier in the mind of man

Than the mute agents stirring there."

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GRISDALE, NEAR ULLSWATER,-WESTMORLAND.

Grisdale is a portion of the valley of Patterdale, lying about half-a-mile north of the chapel, and extends westward three miles to the confines of Cumberland. Grisdale tarn, which takes its name from the dale, is situate at the junction of the three mountains, Helvellyn, Seatsandal, and Fairfield. Grisdale Pike is a lofty mountain, rising to an apex, or point, two thousand five hundred and eighty feet in height. From this elevation fine prospects are obtained of the vale of Keswick to the east; and over a considerable part of Cumberland, with the sea, the Isle of Man, and the mountains of Galloway to the west and north. Grisdale is enclosed, at the upper end, by the mountains Helvellyn and Fairfield.

ST. NICHOLAS' CHURCH, FROM MIDDLE STREET,
NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE.

The church of St. Nicholas, at Newcastle, is an ancient and beautiful edifice, situated in the parish to which it gives name; and was founded in the year 1091 by Osmund, bishop of Salisbury and earl of Dorset, a follower of William the Conqueror. This ecclesiastical structure was given by the first Henry to the church of Carlisle, and it still remains in the patronage of that see. The privileges of the church were greatly abridged during the prelacy of bishop Farnham. Henry the Eighth granted a moiety of the rectory of Newcastle-upon-Tyne to the dean and chapter of Carlisle, enjoining the payment of eight pounds per annum to the bishop of Durham.

The original edifice was destroyed by fire in 1216, and a new erection completed in 1359, since which period considerable alterations have been made, and frequent reparations been effected. It is now a magnificent and imposing structure, situated on the top of a commanding eminence, which rises somewhat precipitately from the river nearly to the centre of the town. In 1783, a subscription was opened for the purpose of effecting such alterations in the plan of the building as should give it the air and character of a cathedral church. The design succeeded: and the chancel was thrown open, the communion table removed under the great east window, all the erections at the west end of the church cleared away, and the space devoted to the purposes of sepulture. A wooden screen was also placed at the entrance to the choir.