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Updated: June 11, 2025
Though it wants water, it excels Dovedale by the extent of its prospects, the awfulness of its shades, the horrors of its precipices, the verdure of its hollows, and the loftiness of its rocks: the ideas which it forces upon the mind are, the sublime, the dreadful, and the vast. Above is inaccessible altitude, below is horrible profundity. But it excels the garden of Ilam only in extent.
This is the Ilam gardens of Europe; and whoever has seen that singular spot in Derbyshire belonging to Mr. Port, has seen little Lucca in a convex mirror.
'When we were safely off, someone came down to the shore and shouted to Mr Fuge to bring the boat back. Awful feud! Fact is, I'm in a hostile country here!" And a lot more like that. It seemed he had quarrelled with everybody in Ilam. He wasn't sure if the landlord of the hotel would let him sleep there again. He told us all about all his quarrels, until he dropped one of the oars.
At this point the duettists came to the end of a movement, and Mr Brindley leaned over to us from his stool, glass in hand. 'The railway company practically owns Ilam, he explained, 'and so they run it for all they're worth. They made the lake, to feed the canals, when they bought the canals from the canal company. It's an artificial lake, and the railway runs alongside it.
Ilam has grandeur, tempered with softness; the walker congratulates his own arrival at the place, and is grieved to think that he must ever leave it. As he looks up to the rocks, his thoughts are elevated; as he turns his eyes on the vallies, he is composed and soothed. He that mounts the precipices at Hawkestone, wonders how he came thither, and doubts how he shall return.
It looks so perfectly solid that whenever I am at Ilam, an insane desire to step on it comes over me, much to F 's alarm, who says he is afraid to let me out of his sight, lest I should attempt to do so. I have only seen one native "bush" or forest yet, and that is at Riccarton. This patch of tall, gaunt pines serves as a landmark for miles.
She put the back of her hand over her mouth, and bending her head slightly and lowering her eyelids, gazed reflectively at the counter. 'It was once when a lot of us went to Ilam, she answered quietly. 'The St Luke's lot, YOU know. 'Oh! cried Mr Brindley, apparently startled. 'The St Luke's lot? 'Yes. 'How came he to go with you? 'He didn't go with us.
A very good scheme of the company's. They started out to make Ilam a popular resort, and they've made it a popular resort, what with special trains and things. But try to get a special train to any other place on their rotten system, and you'll soon see! 'How big is the lake? I asked. 'How long is it, Ol? he demanded of Colclough. 'A couple of miles? 'Not it! About a mile. Adagio!
I was convinced that the contributing cause to the presence of the late Simon Fuge in the boat on Ilam Lake on the historic night was Annie the superior barmaid, and not Sally of the automobile. But Mrs Colclough, if not beautiful, was a very agreeable creation. Her amplitude gave at first sight an exaggerated impression of her age; but this departed after more careful inspection.
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