We have thus described, not only the principal rivers of England, but also those which may be deemed of a „ secondary rank ; and we have rendered our description, both of their course, and of their peculiar and distin guishing feature, full and minute, because thus we thought we should best exhibit a just and impressive picture of this part of the physiognomy of the country. From our account and description, it will be abundantly evident, that England possesses numerous rivers, not only of great utility for the purposes of agriculture and commerce, but of great beauty or grandeur, as forming features in the landscape. In some districts of England and \Vales, the beauty and grandeur are much increased by the lakes, to a brief description of the most celebra ted of which we shall now proceed.
In Huntingdonshire, from the low and level situation of the county, and near neighbourhood of the fens, there are several lakes. The most remarkable are Brick-meer, Ug-meer, Wittlesey-meer, Ramsey-meer, and Benwick meer. Of these, Wittlesey-meer is by much the largest. Formerly there appears to have been a navigation from Peterborough to this meer, and from thence to Ramsey; but now, since some part of the county is drained, the bounds of these lakes are very much reduced. In Che shire there are also several lakes, which likewise have the name of meers, but none of them are of consider able extent. Among the most distinguished are Bog nicer, Comber-meer, Oakhanger-meer, and Pick-meet'. They are rather singular than beautiful, a river, or at least a rivulet, running out of each of them. In Wales there are many lakes, there being scarcely a single county without them ; but in Cardiganshire and Caernarvonshire, they are the most abundant or remarkable. In Breck nockshire there is a singular lake, called Lyn Savadhan. It lies near the town of Brecon, and is two miles long, and nearly the same in breadth. When the spring ad vances, and the ice breaks, it makes a great noise, re sembling long and repeated claps of thunder, so as to be heard at a considerable distance. Bosherton-meer, near Stackpole, in Pembrokeshire, is noted for rumbling noises on different parts of it ; by attending to which, the people who live near it are said to be able to predict the weather. Lyn Tegid, in Merionethshire, called by the English Pemble-meer, is represented as being never raised above its banks, by land floods, heavy rains, or the melting of snow ; yet storms of wind commonly, if not constantly, make it overflow.
But the most celebrated of the English lakes are si tuated in Cumberland, AVestmorcland, and Lancashire. These are Ullswater, Thirlmere or Leatheswater, Der went-water, Bassenthwaite-water, 0 verwater, Lowes water, Ennerdale-water,„ Wast-water, Burnmoor Tarn, Devock-water, 'Findale Tarn, Talkin Tarn, Tarnwad ling, Winander-mere, and Coniston-mere.
Ullswater is situated partly in Westmoreland and partly in Cumberland. It is about nine miles long, but at its greatest width little more than one. Its shores are uncommonly bold, and the fells which are in its neighbourhood rise with great sublimity ; yet, notwith standing the vastness of these accompaniments, Ulls water retains a character of high and impressive dignity. This character is intermixed with one little less striking, though of a more mild and captivating nature: The rocks of the lake, and of its vicinity, are celebrated for reverberating sounds, so that, by the introduction of a few French horns and clarionets, according to Gilpin, "the whole lake is transformed into a kind of magical scene, in which every promontory seems peopled by aerial beings, answering each other in celestial •usic!" Thirlmere, or Leatheswater, is a narrow irregular sheet of water, about three miles in length. It skirts the huge base of Ilelvellyn ; it is situated in the interior of a very sequestered district; and its shores being for the most part naked and rocky, it displays a scene of desolation, heightened in no trifling degree by the huge masses of stone which appear to have fallen from Helvellyn. The impression made on the mind and feelings by this scene, is deepened by the noise of the water-falls, which, on every side, are tumbling from immense heights. Der went-water, or Keswick-lake as it is also named, is i about three miles in length, and one and a half in breadth, somewhat approaching to an oval figure. In beauty it is superior to all the other lakes, but in dignity and gran deur it is much inferior to that of Ullswater. Its great est blemish to the eye of taste, arises from its want of proportion, when viewed in connection with the scenery around it. This scenery is on a very grand and sublime scale ; whereas the lake is not only too small to be grand, but also in its features and form excludes all idea of grandeur ; for, being seen all at once, it leaves nothing for the fancy to feed upon. But, in respect to beauty, it has undoubted and large claims on the man of taste : The soft undulation of its shores, the mingled wood and pasture that paint them, the brilliant purity of the water, that gives back every landscape on its bank, and frequently with heightened colouring ; the fantastic wild ness of the rocks, and the magnificence of the amphi theatre they form, are circumstances, the view of which excites emotions of sweet and tranquil pleasure." When visited by moon-light, the deep shades of the frowning mountains—the reflected light of the moon on the un rippled surface of the water—and the silence of the night, only broken by the murmurs of the water-falls, are re presented as filling the mind with inconceivable pleasure.