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In returning, the traveller can, if he likes, ascend High 

 Street and descend by Hays Water and so home by the 

 Kirkstone road. In doing this from Mardale Green, care must 

 be taken to make a sufficiently wide circuit of Blea Water. 

 Its rocky boundaries are very steep, and more than one un- 

 fortunate tourist has been * crag fast,' and rescued with diffi- 

 culty, in consequence of having attempted to descend too 

 near the tarn. Observing this caution, however, the traveller 

 may ascend either by the northern or southern ridge; the for- 

 mer is generally recommended by dwellers in the dale. The 

 top of High Street is immediately above Blea Water, p. 210. 



The descent has been described in the Windermere Sec- 

 tion, as also the view from the summit 



