Scotch and English Lakes by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The five finest things in Scotland are -- 1. Edinburgh; 2. The antechamber of / the Fall of Foyers; 3. The view of Loch Lomond from Inch Tavannach, the / highest of the islands; 4. The Trosachs; 5. The view of the Hebrides from a / point, the name of which I forget. But the intervals between the fine / things in Scotland are very dreary; -- whereas in Cumberland and Westmoreland / there is a cabinet of beauties, -- each thing being beautiful in itself, and / the very passage from one lake, mountain, or valley, to another, is itself / a beautiful thing again. The Scotch lakes are so like one another, from / their great size, that in a picture you are obliged to read their names; / but the English lakes, especially Derwent Water, or rather the whole vale / of Keswick, is so rememberable, that, after having been once seen, no one / ever requires to be told what it is when drawn. This vale is about as large / a basin as Loch Lomond; the latter is covered with water; but in the former / instance, we have two lakes with a charming river to connect them, and / lovely villages at the foot of the mountain, and other habitations, which / give an air of life and cheerfulness to the whole place.

The land imagery of the north of Devon is most delightful.