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umbrellas became useless, one being broken to pieces, leaving only 

 the iron rod for a walking stick : soaked to the skin we pursued our 

 dreary way amid the cloud guided by the compass only, and before 

 very long were glad to find ourselves on a grassy ridge similar to the 

 one we had ascended ; after a while we emerged from the cloud, and 

 soon made our way down to our resting-place. The prospect was 

 brighter the next morning, and gleams of sunshine enlivened our path 

 up the rival height of Scawfell, and revealed some of the dangers of 

 Mickledore, the precipitous and almost impassable ravine, separating 

 this mountain from the Pike. The Scawfell pink, so much talked 

 about in the district, is nothing but Armeria maritima, var. montana. 

 After descending Scawfell we climbed the Screes, a range of magnifi- 

 cent, shaley cliffs, which skirt the south-eastern side of Wast Water, 

 and rise 1,900 feet above the lake. In Hawl Gill, a granitic valley 

 near the western extremity of the Screes, Hymenophyllum Wilsoni 

 clothed the rocks. After refreshing ourselves in the beautiful village 

 of " The Strands," we had a delightful row up the lake by twilight, and 

 reached our sojourning place ready for bed. A climb up the back of 

 Lingmell, to survey the deep chasm of Pierce Gill, and a long walk 

 over the mountains, past Honister Crag, brought us, on the following 

 morning, to the little inn at Buttermere, without having seen any 

 plants of note but Hieracium alpinum, which grew on the rocks above 

 Pierce Gill : after a rest we passed Crummoch Lake and part of 

 Lowes Water, reaching Low Mosser in the evening, where we spent 

 the next day under the hospitable roof of our felloM^- traveller. Re- 

 suming our journey, we passed through Cockermouth, Keswick and 

 Penrith, to Appleby, and the next morning took a car to the village of 

 Knock, and commenced a careful examination of Knock-ore-gill, a 

 valley in the Crossfell ridge, belonging to the Teesdale district : in 

 the head of the gill we found a fresh locality for Saxifraga Hirculus, 

 and Juncus triglumis was in almost every bog. An Epilobium of un- 

 common appearance, and not agreeing with the description of any 

 English species, grew in the same bog with the Saxifi'aga, also a My- 

 osotis differing from the common form of repens, to which it ap- 

 proached the nearest. An extremely fatiguing walk, over part of an 

 almost endless moss, conveyed us to the head of High Cup Scar, 

 where we saw Saxifraga nivalis in its old locality ; on the ridge be- 

 tween this ravine and Murton Pike, which we climbed, there was 

 abundance of Rubus chamamorus in fruit; we returned to Appleby 

 that evening, and the next day passed through the long and deep 

 valley of Scordale, and after four or five miles' journey through a cloud, 



