212 CHARLES CARDALE BABINGTON. [1870 



Sept. 1. By train to Furness Abbey Hotel. We examined the 

 ruins of the abbey. 



Sept 2. To Windermere, Ambleside, and Grasmere. 



Sept. 5. To Coniston. 



Sept. 6. By train to Drigg. Took car to Wastdale Head, and 

 returned the same way. We had a very fine day, and the mountains 

 were magnificently seen. 



Sept. 7. To Keswick. 



Sept. 11. Sunday. Heard the Rev. J. C. Ryle preach twice at 

 St. John's Church. 



Sept. 13. Met the Rev. James Coleman, of Allerton Rectory, and 

 went to Crosthwaite Church and other places near the town with 

 him. He dined with us. 



Sept. 14. We went by the coach to Borrowdale, over Honister 

 Pass to Buttermere (we had to walk over the Pass), took a boat 

 across Crummoch Water to the Scale Force, then walked to the top 

 of the Pass to Newlands, and back to Keswick. Mr. Coleman went 

 with us. An enormous quantity of Alchemilla alpina on the Butter- 

 mere side of Honister Pass. 



Sept. 19. We drove through the Yale of St. John's to Thirlmere 

 and back. We saw the Druid Circle on the way. It has a curious 

 rectangular enclosure on one side, too large to have been covered by 

 stones. 



Sept. 21. To Ulleswater Hotel, Patterdale. 



Sept. 22. We went by the steam-boat to How-town, on the east 

 side of the lake, and walked back by a track along the hillside by 

 the lake. We first went behind Hallin Fell, to Sandwick, then 

 through some meadows and woods at the edge of the water, and 

 afterwards along a path cut out of the steep slope of the mountain. 

 The view was beautiful, and the quantity of AUosorus crispics very 

 great ; also there was a little Polypodium Dryopteris and Alchemilla 

 alpina. Many juniper bushes are on the side of the mountain. 



Sept. 23. We went by a car to the top of Kirkstone Pass, and 

 walked back. It is certainly the finest valley that I have seen in 

 the Lake Country. When we got to where the road passes to the 

 west side of the valley, we followed the lane and track on the eastern 

 side, and crossed to the other side at Patterdale. That way is far 

 pleasanter than the coach road. 



Sept. 24. We drove three miles up Grisedale, then walked to 

 Grisedale Tarn, and back again along the other side of the valley, 

 and at the lower end crossed the hill to Glenridding. A most 

 beautiful day, and a most beautiful and interesting walk. 



Sept. 25. Sunday. Twice to Patterdale Church. 



