Freemasonry From The Inside.

may we never think of standing to our brethren in the light of a revelation . Each one of us serves God in the way in which he holds best , but Freemasonry will never stand him in stead of personal religion . Ours is a human institution , and , like

all humanity , imperfect . There is but one Perfection , ancl it should be our aim to seek that , each for himself : ancl while here smooth the path of our brethren—minister to them in their need—help them by counsel— -join them in innocent

festivitycherish the aged—train the young—and never forget that the eye of the Almighty watches our -every word and action . So shall Ave live down the taunts ancl misrepresentations of those to whom our bond of brotherhood is unintelligible , ancl by

¦ our demeanour show that Freemasonry from the Inside is pure , manly , moral , ancl pious , whilst to those on the Outside it is a something undefined , yet demanding their veneration and respect .

A Run To The Lakes: Borrowdale.

A RUN TO THE LAKES : BORROWDALE .

( Continued from page 165 . ) As we are not travellers in search of the picturesque merely , we must ask our readers to have patience with us while we try to describe some of the most prominent physical phenomena of the English Lake district .

We need scarcely repeat what everybody knows , that the Lake district consists of a series of mountain ridges ancl plateaux of the very highest altitude in England ; although still the lowest in the scale of Great Britain ancl Ireland . Thus Scawfell Pike , in Cumberland , which is the highest

mountain in England , is 3 , 166 ft . ; Snowdon , in Carnarvonshire , the highest mountain in Wales , is 8 , 571 ft . ; Ben Macdui , * in Aberdeenshire , the the highest mountain in Scotland , is 4 , 418 ft . ; ancl Gurrane Tual , in county Kerry , the highest mountain in Ireland , is 3 > 4 ( Mffc . above the level of the sea .

It is no part of our business to enlarge on the ¦ cosmical theories of the various schools to which the Cumbrian mountains are correlated . The Plutonists have had their day ; the Neptunists have lived to see their philosophy submerged ; and the votaries of the Icebergs have long since

been liquefied or solved . Whether these lacunce have been worn down by water or scooped out by ice , will be accepted just as we adopt the theories of a fluvial action ( which is difficult ) or a glacial action ( which is more simple ) . Some of the lakes , as Ennerdale , do not exceed 80 ft . in

extreme depth ; Windermere is 240 ft . ; and Wast Water , which is so deep as never to be frozen , is 270 ft . With regard to their altitude , this varies a good deal . Windermere is only 116 ft ., Ulleswater is 380 ft ., while Thirlmere is 473 ft . above the level of the sea . Some of the small receptacles of

still water , called tarns far exceed these measurements . For example , Sprinkling Tarn , in Borrowdale , and Eed Tarn , on Helvellyn , lie at an altitude of 1 , 900 ft . and 2 , 400 ft . respectively . The next point we must notice is the technical geology of the district . But no sooner do we

begin to investigate this subject than we get into a perfect labyrinth of scientific miracles . The great original authority , we may state , is Professor Sedgwick , whose letters to Wordsworth form the basis

of all the modern systems of the geology of the Lakes . From these letters ancl other publications of Mr . Sedgwick , ancl particularly from the admirable synopsis of Professor Philips , appended to Black ' s " Guide Book , " we are enabled at least to give thereader a rough idea of the subject .

The Lakes of the north of England , like those of Scotland , Wales , and some districts of Ireland , are situate among the most ancient of unstratified rocks , including slaty formations ivith organic remains , and others still older , which have not as yet yielded any fossils . * These strata form , in a

general sense , one broad rugged dome , surrounded on the flanks by later deposits of old red sandstone , mountain limestone , millstone grit , coal , and new red sandstone . The map of these strata shows us the following superimposition : — A . The mountainous district of slaty rocks ,

inclosing the Lakes . B . The raised border of limestone grit , coal , & c . C . The plains of red sandstone .

But the regularity of this rugged dome and its borders is disguised by a thousand inequalities of detail . The strata of the interior are not uplifted in a regular arch , but bent into innumerable complex curves , forming anticlinical ridges and synclinical hollowsand all so broken "by " faults "

, that the originally continuous rocks are divided , and the parts changed in level from 10 yards to 1 , 000 yards ! These great movements of the strata were accomplished with violence ; and one of the coincident effects was the forcible injection of melted rocks into many of the fissures and

void spaces left between the broken masses . Thus granite , porphyry , and other rocks produced by heat , and not stratified , have found their way amongst their older strata , ancl have produced on them , near the surfaces of contact , certain chemical and mechanical changes , converting' the sunk and argillaceous masses into compounds which