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be got. Or ©Troflfe, the valley of the wild boar, is about the 

 same distance from Brantfell. Here it is said that the last 

 wild boar was killed by one Gilpin, and the spot is pointed 

 out ; — not at all an unlikely place, one would think, with its 

 numerous rocky hillocks, clad with beautiful heath and fern, 

 and valleys thickly set with copse and plantations, for har- 

 bouring such an animal. In this region there is also a good 

 rambling ground in a northerly direction, towards the railway. 



THE TROUTBECK VALLEY. 



By the Church, Bridge, and back by Troutbeck Bridge, 8 miles. By 

 the Queen's Head Inn and Lowwood, 12 miles. 



The country people will tell the traveller, as he turns up to 

 Troutbeck at Cook's House, that he is going to see ' the hand- 

 somest views in these parts — especially at the back-end of 

 the year ; ' and wonderfully fine views they are. Few will 

 resist the appeal of the gracious owner of Calgarth, who 

 has left a depression in the fence in order that the pictures 

 over his lands may be seen : — the well-known features 

 about the head of Winandermere can never be seen too 

 often : their beauties can never pall, for they change with 

 every flitting cloud, with every gleam of sunshine. At each 

 bend of the road the view changes ; and, when we come to 

 the farm at the summit of a longish climb, we have there 

 disclosed ' a more extensive, varied, and beautiful scene than 

 from any carriage-road within the four seas.' In addition to 

 the whole of Winandermere, with its islands and mountains, 

 the panorama is completed by the great pointed masses of 

 the Kentmere range. 



The road now followed by the tourist descends into the 

 valley sharply, by ^\iZ Koto, and crosses the bridge in 



