swoln by the rains, and now filled the mountain pass with their roaring, which added greatly to the solemnity of our walk. Behind us, when we had climbed to a great height, we saw one light, very distant, in the vale, like a large red star-a solitary one in the gloomy region. The cheerful ness of the scene was in the sky above us. Reached home a little before midnight. KENDAL AND WINDERMERE RAILWAY. TWO LETTERS RE-PRINTED FROM THE MORNING POST. REVISED, WITH ADDITIONS. These Two Letters on the "Kendal and Windermere Railway,” were published in The Morning Post, in 1844. They were afterwards republished at Kendal, in a small pamphlet; and subsequently at London, by Whittaker & Co., Ave Maria Lane, and Edward Moxon, Dover Street, "revised, with additions," but without date.-ED. KENDAL AND WINDERMERE RAILWAY. SIR, No. I. To the Editor of the Morning Post.' Some little time ago you did me the favour of inserting a sonnet expressive of the regret and indignation which, in common with others all over these Islands, I felt at the proposal of a railway to extend from Kendal to Low Wood, near the head of Windermere. The project was so offensive to a large majority of the proprietors through whose lands the line, after it came in view of the Lake, was to pass, that, for this reason, and the avowed one of the heavy expense without which the difficulties in the way could not be overcome, it has been partially abandoned, and the terminus is now announced to be at a spot within a mile of Bowness. But as no guarantee can be given that the project will not hereafter be revived, and an attempt made to carry the line forward through the vales of Ambleside and Grasmere, and as in one main particular the case remains essentially the same, allow me to address you upon certain points which merit more consideration than the favourers of the scheme have yet given them. The matter, though seemingly local, is really one in which all persons of taste must be interested, and, therefore, I hope to be excused if I venture to treat it at some length. I shall barely touch upon the statistics of the question, leaving these to the two adverse parties, who will lay their |