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grouping of the mountain peaks, and the indication of their 

 recesses, so striking ; and as to the foreground, with its gUt- 

 tering waterfall, its green undulations, its diversified woods, 

 its bright dwellings, and its clear lake, — it conveys the 

 strongest impression of joyful charm, of fertility, prosperity, 

 and comfort, — nestling in the bosom of the rarest beauty. 



A little further on, stands the house in which Elizabeth 

 Smith lived and died ; and, on the opposite side of the road, 

 a house, built on a spot where a tent was pitched, that 

 she might draw her dying breath with greater ease, and enjoy, 

 as long as possible, the incomparable landscape there stretched 

 before her. The boat-house is at the bottom of the slope, 

 down which she used to take her mother's guests ; and she and 

 her sister were so well practised at the oar that they could show 

 the beauties of the scene from any point of the lake. 



The road then descends and, sweeping round the head of 

 the lake, passes the site of the former Waterhead Inn, now 

 covered by a young plantation of Mr. Marshall's. 



TO LANGDALE, BY YEWDALE AND TILBERTHWAITE, 



AND BACK BY COLWITH. 



(17 miles). 



The excursion into Langdale by Blea Tarn, is one of the 

 finest in the region, and can be taken from Coniston as well 

 as from Ambleside or Grasmere, — the view of the slate- 

 quarries in the Coniston route being fair compensation for 

 the Skelwith valley in that from Ambleside or Windermere. 



The road is through Yewdale, and Tilberthwaite, and is 

 reached by crossing the bridge near the church and then 

 turning to the right. After two miles and a-half, the 

 traveller sees another road parting off to the right, over a 



