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in July, and at Grasmere, on the previous Saturday, — the 

 children of the place go in procession to the church, each 

 carrying a garland, or other device, made of rushes. They 

 leave them there for the Sunday, and the next day the child- 

 ren go and remove them. 



TO STOCKGILL FORCE. 

 (One mile.) 



The stranger is guided through the stable-yard of the 

 Salutation Hotel, when he passes under a tall grove of old 

 trees on the right-hand, the stream being on the left. On 

 the opposite bank is the bobbin-mill, one of the few industrial 

 establishments of Ambleside, placed there on account of the 

 abundant supply of coppice-wood obtainable in the neigh- 

 bourhood. The stacks of wood are seen, high on the bank ; 

 and the dwelling of the proprietor ; and then the great water- 

 wheel, with its attendant spouts and weir, and the sounds of 

 gushing and falling water. The ugly, tall chimney behind is 

 a memorial of the drought of 1859. The proprietor of the 

 mill suffered so severely from want of water to carry on his 

 trade, that he determined no other summer should find him 

 unprepared with a more reliable power. Where the path 

 forks towards and away from the stream, the visitor must 

 take the left-hand one: The other is the way up '^^Sl'dim- 

 fell. His path leads him under trees, and up through a 

 charming wood, with the water dashing and brawling further 

 and further below, till the ear catches the sound of the fall : 

 and presendy after the track turns to the left and brings 

 him to a rocky station whence he has a full view of the force. 

 It is the fashion to speak lighdy of this fall, — it being with- 

 in half-a-mile of the inn, and so easily reached ; but it is, in 

 our opinion, a very remarkable fall, (from the symmetry of 



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