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On the one side you behold the blue lake, with its boundaries

broken by various promontories and necks of land, and reflecting

the inverted images of the objects on its banks; on the other,

the Adda, which, flowing beneath the arches of the bridge,

expands into a small lake, then contracts again, and holds on its

clear serpentining course to the distant horizon: above, are the

ponderous masses of the shapeless rocks; beneath, the richly

cultivated acclivity, the fair landscape, the bridge; in front,

the opposite shore of the lake, and beyond this, the mountain,

which bounds the view.