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again, and go through a field-gate to the right, to a rocky- 

 part called j©p2 Kill, where he commands the finest view of 

 the valley and its environs. And again, just before he comes 

 to Skelwith Bridge, he must go through the first gate on the 

 right in the Coniston road, and follow the field-track until he 

 comes in sight of j^feetoitji ^LOtce* He will hardly aver 

 that he ever saw a more perfect picture than this, — with 

 the fall in the centre, closed in by rock and wood on either 

 hand, and by Langdale Pikes behind. Returning to his car, 

 he will next pass over the bridge and the roaring torrent 

 beneath, and the stacks of wood, — (more coppice-wood for 

 another bobbin-mill), and, will find that he has headed the 

 valley. As he is not going home, however, but to Gras- 

 mere, he turns out of the Brathay Valley by a steep road on 

 the left, which ascends again and again, leading by farm- 

 steads almost as primitive as those of Troutbeck, and evi- 

 dently mounting the spurs of Loughrigg, — which he is 

 travelling round to-day, and which must therefore always 

 be on the right-hand. After a while, he comes to a sheet of 

 water so still, if the day be calm, that he might possibly 

 miss it, unless the precision of its reflection should strike his 

 eye. It is more likely, however, to be rippled by some 

 breeze, and show how deeply blue, or darkly grey, these 

 mountain tarns may be. This is Jkoug^rfgg JE^artt, well- 

 known to all readers of Wordsworth, and consecrated also by 

 the genius of Wilson. At some little distance beyond it, the 

 stranger must diverge from his road to visit ^K^igfj (^lUM, 

 and see the view which is reputed the finest in Westmorland. 

 He may leave his car where the road to High Close ascends 

 to' the left, and walk past the house at the top. He will find 

 a bench placed so as to indicate the most favourable point, 

 and there he is ! overlooking ' the finest view in Westmor- 

 land.' To the extreme right, Bowfell closes in the Langdale 



