Since the opening of the Railway to Coniston, tourists 

 have sometimes begun their circuit of the Lake District from 

 this point. Local authorities differ as to the relative advant- 

 age of beginning here or at Windermere. The question 

 may well be left open, and we will only state that the chief 

 recommendation in favour of the Coniston route is that 

 Furness Abbey may be visited by the way. 



The Kumess ^Etaitoag from the Camforth Junction 

 passes along the Duddon sands to Foxfield, where the Conis- 

 ton Hne branches off, while the Whitehaven line skirts the coast. 

 This latter railway offers facilities for visiting the numerous 

 small bathing places along the coast, and is also an easy mode 

 of approach to the more distant lakes, Ennerdale and Wast- 

 water. It is left at Seascale and Drigg, as before noticed, 

 to convey travellers to the latter ; and St. Bees is only eight 

 miles from Ennerdale. 



