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looked down upon Arnside Tower and Silverdale in the distance. 

 We then came back through another part of the wood, with similar 

 but less formidable difficulty, over the wall again, and back to the 

 station. 



Sept. 10. Newbould came for a few days, but before he came 

 we had been again to the Parnassia station, by the road to the gas- 

 works. I found one little bit of Equisetum variegatum there. 



Sept. 11. We drove to Witherslack. 



Sept. 12. We walked up to the open part of Hampsfell, where 

 we found plenty of Lastrea rigida. We then entered a wood, and 

 descended through it until we found ourselves in the grounds of 

 Nutwood, a beautifully-placed gentleman's house, and passed through 

 them to the old Lindale Wood. The walk down through the wood 

 and the view from Nutwood were most interesting and beautiful. 



Sept. 13. We drove to Lakeside, at the foot of Windermere; 

 then went by one of the packet boats to Ambleside landing-place ; 

 there we took a car to Clappergate and Skelwith, to Lough rigg 

 Tarn and High Close, and Red Bank to Grasmere, where we saw 

 the tombs of the Wordsworths. We returned by the usual road, 

 except making a deviation by Fox Howe. The day was most 

 beautiful. 



Sept. 18. Went to Furness Abbey, where we spent a pleasant 

 and very interesting afternoon. 



Sept. 22. We went to Kendal ; visited the large Perpendicular 

 church of five aisles. 



Sept. 25. In the afternoon we drove to Cartmell Fell church. 

 A most beautiful drive through Newton. On the way we saw to the 

 right Buck Crag, the cottage in which the ancestor of the Law family 

 lived in poverty, as curate and schoolmaster of Staveley. On the 

 way we saw the old Meeting House and gi'aveyard of the Quakers, 

 the former of which is very interesting; quite plain. It is but 

 little used now, as there are few to come to it. The church of St. 

 Anthony is Perpendicular in style, but very plain, almost rude. In 

 it are most curious old pews (a.d. 1698), with a sort of top like the 

 old four-posted beds, with a table in the middle. The pulpit is of 

 the same date. The Communion Table is a small semi-circular table 

 about 5 feet along the front, and the whole place enclosed by the 

 rail is only about 7 feet in front by 6 feet from the wall. There is 

 a mortice remaining, which seems to shew that there once was a 

 rail all across the east end. There is no distinction of nave and 

 chancel. We called on the vicar, and had some milk and cake at a 

 farm (Hodge Hill) below the church. We returned by the lower 

 road, by High Tarn Green. 



Sept. 26. Walked to Hampsfell, and gathered Lastrea rigida and 

 Polypodium calcareum amongst the rocks, near some nut trees. 



