Gray's Journal Entry: ‘This plate gives a view of the lowest reach of Ullswater. It is of a very different character from the other two divisions. Those appear to the eye completely environed by impending mountains, whereas this, if Dunmallet were removed, would lie entirely open to the adjacent country. Dunmallet is a hill of a regular conic form, of no great height, and somewhat formally planted with wood. On its top are the vestiges of a Roman fortress, well adapted, like that on Castle-crag, at the head of Derwentwater, to command all the avenues of the country. The view is taken near the farmhouse called Bowerbank overlooking the village of Pooley which stands on the outlet of the lake. The river here takes the name of Emont and after a course of eight or ten miles falls into the Eden. The wood rising on the right of the foreground is part of Dunmallet. In the first distance near the centre appears Watermellock, the habitation of Mr Robinson, charmingly situated upon an eminence. The hills on the left are Place-fell, etc. In the most remote distance rises Helvellyn which disputes pre-eminence in respect of altitude with Skiddaw and Cross-fell.’ |