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for it the gem of a house that he sees, — the cream-coloured 

 one, veiled in roses, with the conservatories beside it, just 

 under the wooded precipice : that is Fox Ghyll. To the 

 left there are good views of Rydal Park. Approaching 

 Ambleside, the first house on the left is Lesketh How : the 

 white house to the right is Meadow Bank : and the house 

 on the rising ground behind the chapel is The Knoll. The 

 gates on the left are those of Scale How : and the pretty- 

 cottage next reached on the same side is called Low Nook. 

 The stream to the right is the Stock, making its way to the 

 river : and the old grey dwelling built above it is the ancient 

 house which is considered the most curious relic in Amble- 

 side of the olden time. The view of the mill, and the rocky 

 channel of the Stock, on the left of the bridge, is one which 

 every artist sketches as he passes by ; and if there is in the 

 exhibition in London, in any year, a view at Ambleside, it is 

 probably this. The Kirkstone road now joins the mail-road 

 and the tourist finds himself on old ground, — in the market- 

 place. 



TO THE LANGDALE VALLEYS, BY THE SKELWITH AND 

 COLWITH FALLS, BLEA TARN, AND DUNGEON GILL. 

 (17 miles). 

 This Drive, which is one of the great favourites at Amble- 

 side, commences with the Brathay Valley, which we have 

 described at page 76, — past the new Church, and very soon 

 coming to the familiar land-mark of ^Eioti^ag ^Tlbg£^ to 

 which we have had to allude many times. Now we are under 

 the southern end of Loughrigg Fell, with Winandermere on our 

 left, and the pretty gardened-cottages of Clappersgate on the 

 right. On Brathay Bridge we have most beautiful river- 

 scenery up and down, especially the former, with the grand 



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