Gray's Journal Entry: ‘Water-Millock, the celebrated seat of the late Mr Robinson, a truly enviable residence is seen in the first distance near the centre of the accompanying view, deeply sequestered amid beech and sycamore trees which shelter it from every inclement blast. Beneath is the lower end of the first reach of Ullswater which here takes a majestic sweep. Opposite is Swarth Fell, a naked rock, deeply scarred by successive storms and torrents. The mountains which form the back-screen, along the right side of the lake, are the craggy steeps of Helvellyn and other rugged eminences of inferior elevation.

On the left of the lake is Martindale Bay, necessarily given but imperfectly in our engraving, on whose shores, we were told, echoes of singular grandeur may be obtained by firing a cannon. The sound of the explosion is repeated like peals of thunder, of various duration, sometimes reverberating in hollow murmers, and sometimes seeming like the crash of mountains: the report of every discharge is said to be seven times distinctly re-echoed.’