although it cannot boast the more majestic beauty-the magnificent wood-clothed shores, and stupendous precipices of the Cumbrian and Westmoreland lakes-still when slight breezes ruffle its surface, while the fleecy clouds sail along the sky, lights and shadows fall in beautiful succession on mountain, strand, and wave, constantly shifting and changing in effect, and affording to true lovers of the picturesque in nature, an infinite source of delight.

These shores are visited too by rare and curious birds, such as dip their wings in the ocean wave. The osprey may be seen soaring on high, and

The wild swan on the silver lake

Floats double, swan and shadow.

The common tern, the sea swallow, and several kinds of gulls frequent Semerwater, and fresh water wildfowl are plentiful. The lake contains an abundant supply of fish, and, at one period, the fishery was of some value, as in an old survey of the county of Richmond, it is rated at forty shillings. In the 15th Edward III., 1340, it is, however, entered as "nothing, because it cannot be let, nor any profit made of it."

This is the valley of the Roe (Raydale) which we have before mentioned. It is just the kind of haunt congenial to that graceful animal. Car End, and Thwaite End, are two houses on the lake. Car End received its name from its situation at or near the end of the "car," or "pole." At this house, in 1712, was born the eminent physician Dr. George Fothergill. He studied at Edinburgh and London, and after having travelled in many parts of the continent, settled in the British metropolis, where he obtained an extensive practice. He died in 1780. Fothergill, who was a Quaker, was distinguished for philanthropy. He was a member of the Royal Society, and was well versed in botany, and other branches of natural history. His collected works were edited by Dr. Lettsom.(1)

(1) Davenport's Dict. Biogh. p. 275.