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stranger enters his car, and passes farms between him and 

 the lake, and villas on the rocky and wooded bank on the 

 left ; and, at the corner, where the road turns to the village, 

 the cluster of lodging-houses, called St. Oswald's, where a 

 hydropathic establishment struggled for a time, but found the 

 Westmorland winter too long for invalids. 



The driver may stop at the ^iSiotljag ^BJatel to order din- 

 ner. Whatever the dinner is to be, it must not be ready 

 under two hours, — rather three hours than two. Proceed- 

 ing for a mile, between fences and stone walls, the tourist 

 reaches the opening to ^asetiale. The gate and shrub- 

 bery to the right are the entrance to Lancrigg ; and there 

 the regular road ends. The car can cross the stream and 

 go about a mile further along the farm-tracks in the val- 

 ley, through the meadows, which yield a coarse hay, and 

 near the stream which is tufted with alders. At the farm- 

 house where the car stops, the people will shew the traveller 

 the way he must go, — past the plantation, up the hill-side, 

 where he will find the track that will guide him up to the 

 waterfall, — the foaming cataract which is seen all over the 

 valley, and is called Sour Milk Gill Force. The water and 

 the track together will shew him the way to the tarn, which 

 is the source of the stream. Up and on he goes, over rock 

 and through wet moss, with long stretches of dry turf and 

 blue heather ; and, at last, when he is heated and breath- 

 less, the dark cool recess opens, in which lies Easedale Tarn. 

 Perhaps there is an angler standing on the great boulder on 

 the brink. Perhaps there is a shepherd lying among the 

 ferns.* There is nothing in natural scenery which conveys 



* From Easedale the pedestrian may pursue his way along the ridge 

 to Langdale ; or he may cross into Borrowdale ; but more will be said 

 of this in the description of the Walks at Grasmere, at the end of the 

 Ambleside Section, 



