Gray's Journal Entry: ‘In the progress of this work, some of the features which distinguish the situation of Rydal have been noticed. The view here presented exhibits another species of landscape, which will serve to show the great variety which abounds in this neighbourhood. The traveller on his tour is directed to the waterfall, passes at the foot of the mountain, and pursues his course by the side of the lake. A few circumstances of notoriety are habitually recommended; to these he pays his visit, and leaves the place, supposing himself sufficiently acquainted with what is remarkable – But a true idea of the beauties of such a country can only be formed by him who has time to explore the various elevations, who considers the different points of view, and suffers no accidental circumstance to escape him. In this view, which was taken a little above Rydal Hall, part of Windermere lake, bounded on the west side by Furness Fells, has a beautiful effect, over the dark umbrage that decorates the hills adjacent to Ambleside, the situation of which is marked by a few houses in the middle distance.’