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Our route has been described in the Langdale excursion 

 as far as the turn to the right which leads to Blea Tarn, 

 — viz., the road by Clappersgate and the Brathay Valley, in the 

 latter of which, however, the traveller must keep the right- 

 hand road. Passing Skelwith Bridge, he will follow the new 

 road, which turns off to the right almost immediately after 

 crossing the bridge. Then there is a climb of about a mile, 

 and a short descent before turning steeply to the right towards 

 Colwith Bridge. <ir0tolt5[ ^orce, a little further on, will 

 make itself heard and seen. It tumbles from a height of seven- 

 ty feet, and the adjuncts are beautiful. One mile further along 

 the winding road or lane, ^angtiale ^ikz^ comes into view, 

 with '^^M't&izxlum swelling up grandly to the south of it. 

 About a mile further, there is a gate where the road divides into 

 two; — the straight-forward one leading to Blea Tarn and 

 Great Langdale ; and the left-hand one, which our traveller 

 must follow, leading to 'JB{z\l ^oat, and the old road from 

 London to Whitehaven, which was the only route before car- 

 riers' carts found their way into the region. Fell Foot was the 

 house of entertainment whence the pack-horse cavalcade 

 began the ascent, or where they stopped to congratulate 

 themselves on having accomplished the descent. The ascent 

 of ""JKlTrgnose from this point is long and rather steep : but 

 the views behind become grander with every step. The 

 travellers are now in Westmorland ; but at the three ^i}ixz 



indeed, one might probably say with safety that there is no tract of 

 country in England so broad as that between the highway to Whitehaven 

 via Keswick, and to the same place via Broughton, without an inter- 

 mediate thoroughfare. The Wastwater district, which contains some of 

 the grandest scenery in the country, is now almost virtually closed to the 

 strangers who have not time or inclination for a long railway journey, 

 owing to the want of a good road to it ; from the Winandermere side of 

 Bowfell, were the facility offered, we are sure the hundreds who pass 

 from Ambleside to Keswick would only be too glad to turn aside and 

 behold this the grandest part of the district. 



