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Gray also spoke of the Stable Fields as affording a view 

 almost as fine as the one from Crow Park. His mention of 

 Scarf Close Reeds, as the name of a fine station, shows that 

 he skirted the lake under Walla Crag, where the present Bor- 

 rowdale road runs at some height above the margin. The 

 tourist may follow his example, pursuing the track along 

 the water's edge till at ^attotn^ag it joins the high-road 

 which will lead him back to Keswick. This would add two 

 miles and a-half to the walk. 



DERWENTWATER. 



(In ordinary weather, it will take three hours to row round the lake ; 

 four hours if Barrow and Lodore Falls be visited. The prohibition 

 with regard to sailing yachts, we are informed, has been withdrawn.) 



The most permanent attraction to the stranger will pro- 

 bably be the lake itself It is not seen in its greatest per- 

 fection from its own waters, and yet it is so exquisitely 

 beautiful that boating, upon a fine day, is little less than a 

 fairy voyage. The waters are singularly clear, and their sur- 

 face often unruffled as a mirror, at which time it reflects the 

 surrounding shores with marvellous beauty of effect. Sou- 

 they, writing to a friend, says — * I have seen a sight more 

 dreamy and wonderful than any scenery that fancy ever yet 

 devised for fairy-land. We had walked down to the lake 

 side ; it was a delightful day, the sun shining, and a few 

 white clouds hanging motionless in the sky. The op- 

 posite shore of Derwentwater consists of one long moun- 

 tain, which suddenly terminates in an arch, and through 

 that opening you see a long valley between mountains, and 

 bounded by mountain beyond mountain ; to the right of the 

 arch the heights are more varied and of greater elevation. 



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