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black’s guide book advertiser.
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In a Portable Volume, Price 5s.,
Or with 26 Illustrations by Birket Foster, Price 7s. (
BLACK’S PICTURESQUE GUIDE TO THE ENGLISH LAKES,
INCLUDING
AN ESSAY ON THE GEOLOGY OF THE DISTRICT.
By John Philips, F.R.S., G.L., Deputy Reader of Geology in the, University
of Oxford.
SEVENTH EDITION.
With a Correct Travelling Map; Views of the Scenery by T. M. Richaidson jun.,
Montague Stanlev, etc.; Twelve Explanatory Outline Views of Mountain
Groups, by Mr. Flintoft of Keswick; Four Charts of the more interesting
Localities, Itineraries, and all the Hotels.
l oR the lover of nature, no Tour can be named of a more pleasing character than that which
these Lakes afford; yet we see crowds of people hurrying to the Continent on the return of
each summer, without deigning to glance at the lovely scenery of their o “ 'a,“
penetrate the Glaciers, and Iraverse the Rhone and the Rhine, whilst our domestic lakes of
Ulleswater, Keswick, and Windermere, exhibit scenes in so sublime a style, with such beautiful
colourings of rock, wood, and water, backed with so stupendous a disposition of mountains,
that if theydormt fairly take the lead of all the views of Europe, yet they are indisputably
such as no English traveller should leave behind him.”
“ This Guide to the Lakes has been compiled upon the same elaborate plan (os the Pic-
tureaque Tourist of Scotland), governed by the same resolution to spare no cost or trouble to
achieve a successful result. It needs no higher commendation. It is a Picturesque Guide
in every sense—its descriptions are charmingly written, its intelligence is ample and minute,
and Rs illustrations are admirable specimens of art.”—A Has.
racy and extent of the information it conveys. Many guide bc..„=
matter, which only serve to perplex and irritate the tourist. This ci
volume before us, masmuch as it contains ‘ mullum in ■ • ■
class of travellers.”—Jiell’s Weekly Messenger.
EDINBURGH: ADAM AND CHARLES BLACK.