88 TSSFintiertnerc to ©Tontston 



private individuals. Some few years since, the pulpit of the 

 old chapel fell, with the clergyman, Mr. Frazer, in it, just 

 after he had begun his text ^ Behold I come quickly.' The 

 pulpit fell upon an elderly dame who escaped, wonderfully. 

 Mr. Frazer, as soon as he found his feet, congratulated her 

 on surviving such an adventure : but she tartly refused his 

 sympathy, saying, ' If I'd been kilt, I'd been reet sarrat 

 [rightly served], for yeh threeaten'd ye'd be cumin doon 

 see-en.' Near this chapel is the Thrang slate-quarry, where 

 the stranger should look in, and see what a mighty excavation 

 has been caused by the demand for this fine slate. Just be- 

 yond the chapel, the roads part, — that which ascends to 

 High Close climbing the hill to the left. We will take the 

 other towards Skelwith and Brathay, and so home by the 

 head of Winandermere. 



TO CONISTON, 



BY HIGH CROSS, AND BACK BY TILBERTHWAITE. 



(28 miles.) 



The drive to Coniston has been already described, as 

 far as the point at which it diverges from the ^ratfjag 

 "^alleg, (pages 71 and 75). It then skirts the grounds of 

 Brathay Plall, and passes near the lake at Pullwyke Bay. 

 A little further on, the road turns to the right, and ascends 

 a steep hill to a small public-house called Barn Gates ; here 

 the traveller must not forget to notice the grand view from 

 the steps outside the Inn. From this point the road is 

 through a wild woodland country, until '^Sii^ ^xom is 

 reached, where the road from Hawkshead comes up and 

 joins that on which we travel. After a while, we descend 

 steeply towards ©Tonteiton, and get our first introduction to 

 the water. The road is wire-fenced now, and signs of cul- 

 tivation are all about; it winds among noble woods and 



