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Low Water, — which is 2,000 feet above the sea level, while 

 the summit of the Old Man is 2,633 ^*set. 



(3.) By taking the same "JiZS^ralna ^cat road till it 

 approaches the Black Beck of Torver, then following its 

 course to Gaits Water, and, taking the stony path along its 

 eastern shore, climbing to the summit of Gait's Hause, which 

 is the neck or pass connecting the Coniston Fells with Dow 

 Crag; then to the right, backwards three-quarters wheel, 

 and an easy march of half a mile across the smooth grassy 

 slope called Fairfield, will bring the traveller to the object of 

 his quest. By this route it is possible, with one or two 

 short intervals of leading, to ride to the very top ; but it 

 is a long road with many turnings. 



(4.) The pleasantest route, though perhaps neither the 

 least laborious nor the shortest, is directly past the mines. 

 Leaving the works, before inspected, a steep cart-road is 

 taken, which winds up the hill between Paddy-end — a more 

 elevated range of works so-called — and a high precipice 

 called Kernal Crag. Across the face of the rocks over 

 Paddy-end there is a diagonal fissure, called Simon nick, 

 after the name of the miner who made it long ago. There 

 were fairies in the land in Simon's time, and, directed by them, 

 he found vast treasures of copper there. 



Still toiling upwards, the tourist attains the edge or lip of 

 the basin which holds J&ebers "y^ZE'ater, one of the finest of 

 our mountain lakelets, nearly circular in form, upwards of a 

 mile in circumference, and all but surrounded by very steep 

 grassy slopes and magnificent rocky precipices. The Mining 

 Company have utilised the waters of this tarn by damming 

 them up to a height considerably above their natural level, 

 and so making it a reservoir for their works below. It is 

 also observable that their excavations are made even at this 

 height. Passing along a very uneven path on the hill-side 



