History Of The Airedale Lodge, No. 387,

make your Masonic meetings pleasant and attractive . Accept my every good wish for your prosperity . The toasts of "The Visitors , " "The Worshipful Master , " "Past Masters , " " The Building Committee , " " The Secretary , " " The Musical Committee , " and last of all , " All Poor and Distressed , " brought this red-letter clay in the annals of the Airedale Lodge to a truly harmonious and happy termination .

Letters were received by the W . Master from the R . W . Prov . G . Master ( Sir Henry Edwards , Bart . ) , and by the Secretary from the M . W . Pro Gi-and Master ( the Rt . Hon . the Earl of Carnarvon ) , both expressing their acknowledgments for the reception , also approval of the admirable arrangements for their comfort and the pleasure generally which the clay ' s proceedings had g iven them . ( To be continued . )

Thirlmere Lake.

THIRLMERE LAKE .

THIS beautiful lake rejoices m four distinct names . The most ancient is Brackmeer , so called in Nicholson ancl Burn ' s " History of Cumberland and Westmorland , " p . 79 . It is thus noticed in the history , published 1777 : —

" At the foot of Wythburn there is a large broad meer , or lake , called Brackmeer , Avell furnished with pike , perch , and eels ; from the north end whereof issues the river Bure , which falls into Derwent beloiv Keswick . " At little below Brackmeer , at the head of Buredale , stands the ancient seat of the Leathes ' s , called Dulchead ; which gave the name to a famil y of the Dales , whose daughter and heir was married to Leathes , of Leathes , in the parish of Akcton . " '

When Gray , the poet , visited the lakes in 1769 , in his journal under date October 8 th , he says : " Came to the foot of Helvellyn , along which runs an excellent road , looking down from a little height on Lee ' s water , ( also called Thirl-ineer or Wiborn-water ) , * ancl soon descending on its margin . The lake looks black from its depth , and from the gloom of the vast crags that scowl over it though clear as glass ; it is narrowand about three miles long

resem-, Toling a riv T er in its course . " Gilpin , in his tour , 1788 , says : " We now approached the lake of W yburn or Thirhner , as it is sometimes called ; an object every way suited to the ideas of desolation winch surround it "A joyless coast Around a stormy lake .

"And to impress still more the characteristic idea of the place , the road hanging over it ran along the edge of a precipice . One peculiar feature also belongs to it . About the middle of the lake , the shores , on each side nearly uniting , are joined by an Alpine bridge . I did not observe any picturesque beauty , arising from this circumstance , but rather a formality ; at least from the stand where I viewed it . A communicationhoweverof this kind rather

, , increases the romantic idea . " The earliest writers on Thirlmere do not seem to have discovered a tithe of its beauties in consequence of having passed it on the highway . The lower reach of the lake is completely hidden from view by Great How , a fine , wooded