Ullswater
after Windermere the largest of English lakes; between the counties of Cumberland and Westmorland, 5½ miles S. W. of Penrith and 11 E. S. E. of Keswick. Lying 477 feet above sea-level, it is 9 miles long, 14 to 3/4 mile broad, and 205 feet in maximum depth. It is divided into three reaches, which increase in beauty and grandeur as one goes up it from Pooley Bridge to Patterdale, a chief feature of the landscape being the lofty mountain Helvellyn (3,118 feet), which rises from the S. W. extremity of the lake.
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