58 "SSfalfe torn TiSJinbetmere to 



is as wild a place as the most adventurous angler can ever 

 have found himself in. Our traveller must, however, come 

 again to see it ; for there is no time to diverge to it to-day. 



ASCENT OF ILL BELL AND HIGH STREET. 



High Street and 111 Bell are more easily ascended from 

 Windermere than from any other head-quarters. The best 

 way of approaching the former is up the Valley of ^xouU 

 beclt, (page 32,) as far as the Queen's Head Inn. At this 

 point, a lane diverges to the right, and slopes rapidly down 

 into the valley. Fertile meadows are soon reached, and then 

 the Park House. Horses or conveyances may be used as far 

 as here, which would reduce the walking to the compass of 

 most persons who come into the district. Passing in front of 

 the farm, you join the well-marked track which runs along the 

 side of the Troutbeck Tongue, on the traveller's right-hand ; 

 follow this until you come opposite to a deeply-scarred ra- 

 vine which descends from 111 BelF, on your right, just beyond 

 which a grass road is seen tending up the side of Froswick. 

 Cross the stream, pass through or by the sheep-fold, and 

 make for this road, which, as it winds up here, is called ^cots 

 ^BtaJte* In a little while you will reach the open side of 

 the mountain. The course now is plain to the first cairn, 

 (Thornthwaite Crag,) which you see before you. This, 

 however, is not the summit ; it is a mile and a-half further 

 on, at the other side of the wall, overlooking the head of 

 Kentmere and Blea Tarn. 



In order to ascend both 111 Bell and High Street, we start 



* It may be worth observing that the name of this mountain is gener- 

 ally written Hill Bell. This is a mistake. The old name is 111 Bell — 

 /■// meaning, in this connection, evil, difficult, ie. difficult to ascend. 



