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climb in the cool of the morning ; he should have a stout 

 stick in his hand, or, better still, one of the mountain-poles, 

 which he will find of great service in helping him over the 

 rough places ; provision for the day in his knapsack or his 

 pocket, is indispensable. 



The mountain up which we proprose to take the traveller 

 first, is the one which he will often have noticed rising 

 grandly above Ambleside, and the ascent of which it is best 

 to commence with as the excursion is safe, not over-fatiguing, 

 practical for a summer-day, and presenting scenery as charac- 

 teristic as can be found. The whole of this great horse-shoe 

 of mountain is called Fairfield, — is in fact the Fairfield 

 Range, but each summit has a distinctive name. Let us be- 

 gin with Nab Scar, the end which overlooks Rydal Lake : 

 the next summit is Harron Crag, ; then Green or Great 

 Riggs ; then Fairfield proper (the summit) ; and, last of all, 

 Rydal Head. The top of Fairfield is 2,950 feet above the 

 sea level, and Rydal head 2,910. The name Rydal' Head 

 originally belonged to the valley shut in by the summits, but 

 has lately been used for the height above it. 



The stranger should ascend to the ridge, either through 

 Rydal Forest, (for which leave is requisite, and not always 

 easily obtained,) or by the Nook, the road to which is at the 

 back of Scale How, (see plan,) which anybody will show 

 him. The Nook is a farmhouse in a glorious situation, as 

 he will see when he gets there and steps into the field on the 

 left to look abroad from the brow. He then passes under 

 its old trees, to where the voice of falling waters call him 

 onward. Scandale Beck comes down its rocky channel, 

 close at hand. He must cross the bridge and follow the 

 cart-road, which brings him out at once upon the fells. 

 What he has to aim at is the ridge above Rydal Forest or 2 

 Park, from whence his way is plain, — round the whole cu/- 



