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continue to unite all the members ; and , as the elders pass away to their rest , may their places be filled by generations of worthy Masons anxious to tread in their footsteps . May these not only emulate their example , hut so imbibe the true lessons of our Order that the differences and jealousies of our common nature be never permitted to act prejudicially either to a brother or to the lodge . I know of nothing more powerful foi _; ood than the chain of true

Freemasonry , but if the links rust through disuse , or break away in consequence of any fancied slight or want of appreciation in the lodge , who can estimate the loss to that lodge , and , indeed , to society at large ? That some abler pen may take up the thread of history in the future , and derive as elevating pleasure from the task as it has been my lot and privilege to experience , is the wish most prominent to my mind inconoluding this unpretending account of my mother lodge .

Thirlmere Lake.

THIRLMERE LAKE .

( Concluded from page 247 . ) PART II .

A S we intimated in our former article , it was Mr . William Green , an artist , -A ^ - and writer of " A Guide to the Lakes , " who was the first writer who seemed to have fully appreciated and explored this lake , and his two beautiful views of it , Nos . 25 and 26 , being part of a series of sixty small prints published in 1814 , are amongst the finest pictures in the collection . Mr . Green lived at Ambleside , and it would seem that excursions to Thirlmere were frequently madeboth bthe resident gentry of and near Ambleside

, y ancl the tourists sojourning there . No . 25 is taken from , a field near Armboth House . ^ The Great Howe , which is on the Dalehead side of the water , is here a principal feature , and is finely diversified with rock and wood . Naddle Fell and behind it Wanthwaite Crags , are seen in the distance . Mr . Green , in his descri ption says : — " Who would neglect to trace the western side of Wyburn Water for the contemplation of scenes like the one before him , and for

others equall y deserving his attention ? " The other view , No . 26 , is taken from a part of the old road immediatel y west of the foot of the lake ; and Helvell yn is seen from it , and that mountain is nowhere seen to such advantage as from this point . The woods , on the opposite side of the lake , and Dalehead Hall is seen amongst them . Between these woods and the Helvell winds the hih road from Ambleside to KeswickFrom the

yn range g . sequestered position of Thirlmere , Haweswater , and some others of the smaller lakes , they have retained more of Nature ' s simplicity than the larger lakes of Windermere and Derwentwater . The hand of man has interfered less with their natural beauties . There are no villa residences , formal plantations , nor shrubberies to supplant the mountain ash , the yew , the holly , and the birch , which are scattered here and there on the mountain side just as Mature

has planted them . It is well that the late Mr . Alfred Pettitt completed six excellent paintings of Thirlmere as it is , before its features become totall y changed , as is to be the case when the Manchester Corporation begins its work . It is a bootless business to inveigh against a powerful Corporation , backed by an Act of Parliament , and yet it may possibly afford some instruction to consider little the claims of such bodies to invade the lake

a country and submerge one of the most beautiful of its lakes . Thirlmere is at present SbU acres in extent . It is contemplated to erect a dam , which will raise the a « e , so as to cover 800 acres . This will cause the present islets , promonv 2