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by the road which takes him to ^toebm ^ritige (p. 105). 

 After leaving the bridge on the left, he pursues his way along 

 an uneven grassy road, which is crossed by many streams, 

 till, after a walk of a mile, he arrives at a gate. The road 

 is plainly marked a little further on, but ceases at a large 

 sheep-fold which he will see for sometime before he reaches 

 it. After passing the fold, he must proceed in a north-east- 

 erly direction, and make his way towards a crag which appears 

 over the centre of the ridge which closes in the valley. The 

 ascent looks easy enough, but lengthens out as he attempts 

 it, and he is often tempted to believe that his guiding crag 

 must belong to some range still further off. It is, however, 

 one of the Dove Crags, and when he has passed a small tarn, 

 half an hour after he left the fold, he finds himself not far 

 from the foot of it. He must climb to the top, and then 

 what a view opens all around him ! Below him he sees 

 Brothers' Water, with Hartsop lying behind it ; then his eye 

 travels over Place Fell and the whole of the Ullswater range, 

 and he catches glimpses of the lake at Pooley Bridge end. 

 Turning a little to the right, he perceives Kidsty Pike, High 

 Street, and 111 Bell, the latter over the shoulder of the Red 

 Screes. Looking back the way he came, he sees both ends 

 of Winandermere, Blelham Tarn, Esthwaite, Coniston, and 

 the sea at Lancaster and Duddon sands ; while, by turning 

 more to the west, he catches many fine points of the Fairfield 

 ridge, and one peep of Helvellyn. There are many direc- 

 tions in which it would well repay him to explore. Perhaps 

 the most tempting is the dropping down upon Brothers' 

 Water, to which he will see a path far below him in a valley 

 at his feet. He might ascend the Red Screes from this point ; 

 or he might turn towards Fairfield, and, after walking along ; 

 the ridge, regain the Scandale Valley at the sheep-fold, which 

 all the time serves him as a valuable landmark. 



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