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be impressed on the memory. The road now rapidly 

 descends into Dale Park, (a grand place in the spring for 

 daffodils), past the pretty little ^uslanb church, and then 

 turning to the right by the parsonage, conducts the tourist 

 to Force Forge, one of the numerous bobbin-mills so con- 

 stantly met with in this part of the country. Instead, however, 

 of following the main-road past the Forge, he must turn to 

 the left and enter a rough by-road which will lead him past 

 Bark House Bank and Ickinthwaite, — the road taking a 

 sharp turn to the right, almost round the latter farmhouse — 

 to Bethecar Moor. The views from this moor are very 

 fine — hill rising above hill in wild confusion, with an occa- 

 sional glimpse of the sea between them. After crossing the 

 moor there is a very steep descent to ^I^ ibtljlrraite where the 

 road round Coniston Lake, (p. i68), which has already been 

 described, is joined. The traveller is now six miles from 

 Coniston, and has a good road home on either side of the 

 lake. 



ASCENT OF CONISTON OLD MAN. 



(This mountain can be * done ' in two hours, but three, or even four 

 hours, had better be reckoned on by ordinary walkers. ) 



This is an excursion which the active tourist will be sure to 

 make. He will want to see the series of tarns ; and he 

 hears it said, and very truly, that the prospects from the 

 summit are finer than any but those from Scafell and Hel- 

 vellyn, — if not, indeed, finer than the latter. There are 

 various ways of accomplishing this feat. 



(i.) By taking a pony and riding by Dixon Ground, up the 

 Slate Quarries' road, to within a quarter of a mile of the 

 summit, which is reached by scrambling up the almost perpen- 

 dicular side on foot. 



