final hopes and fears of the adjacent pastoral hamlet, -but for these considerations the first movement of a stranger's feelings would be towards loud laughter; for the chapel looks not so much a miniature chapel in a drop scene from the Opera House, as a miniature copy from such a scene, and evidently could not receive within its walls more than half a dozen households."* The story of Mary, the beauty of Buttermere, is now, from its repeated publication, very generally known-briefly stated it is this:-She was possessed of considerable personal charms, and being the daughter of the innkeeper, her usual employment was to wait upon those guests, who at that time, made their way so far into the heart of the hills. Her beauty thus became the theme of what may be called extensive praise. A man, who designated himself the Honourable Col. Hope, brother of Lord Hopetoun, but whose real name was Hatfield, had fled from the arm of the law to these sequestered parts. Being struck with her attractions, he paid. his addresses to, and married her, but no great length of time elapsed before he was apprehended on a charge of forgery. He was tried at Carlisle, and being found guilty suffered the extreme penalty of the law. Mary married for her second husband a respectable farmer of Calbeck, and died a few years ago. A footpath leading through the fields, and across the little stream connecting the two lakes, conducts to SCALE FORCE, one of the loftiest waterfalls in the vicinity of the lakes. The road, in damp weather * De Quincey. especially, is none of the cleanest, and therefore a boat is frequently taken, which lands the visitor about half a mile from the fall. A mountain path, leaving Scale Force on the left and climbing the fells above it, leads into Ennerdale. Floutern Tarn, which is passed on the way, serves as a landmark. Extending the excursion to SCALE HILL, four miles from Buttermere, the road traverses the eastern shore of Crummock Water, passing under the hills Whiteless, Grasmoor and Whiteside. Melbreak is a fine object on the other shore. From the foot of this mountain a narrow promontory juts into the lake, the extremity of which, when the waters are swollen, becomes insulated. A short distance before Scale Hill is reached, there is a fine view into the sylvan valley of Lorton. At Scale Hill there is a comfortable inn, which for a few days might be made advantageously the Tourist's residence. Boats may be had upon Crummock Lake, from which the inn is about a mile distant. Scale Force might be visited if not seen previously. One boating excursion at least ought to be taken for the purpose of viewing the fine panorama of mountains which enclose the lake, and which can be no where seen to such advantage as from the bosom of the water. Green has pointed out one station for obtaining a fine view not only of Crummock Lake but of Buttermere also. It is from a point two or three hundred yards above the promontory under Melbreak; Honister Crag is seen closing the prospect on the north. The lake is three miles long by about three quarters of a mile broad ; its sounded depth is twenty-two fathoms. There are |