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northern end of the wood, where the path strikes across the 

 field to the coppice called Keswick Springs, whence, among 

 several tracks, there is one due north, which leads out 

 upon the mail-road at pStoto $Ufl|j, just above Keswick, 

 on the Ambleside road. 



WALLA CEAG. 

 (Four miles and a-half. If extended to Barrow two and a-half more.) 



A walk, involving a little more fatigue, is that to the sum- 

 mit of Walla Crag. It is commenced by the Ambleside 

 road, along which the walker proceeds until nearly at the 

 summit of the first hill called ©Tastlerf^g, Here there is a 

 turn on the right which will lead him past Castlerigg farm- 

 houses to Rakefoot, where a track will be seen, ascending 

 to the open ground of Castlerigg Fell. A wall stands in the 

 way ; but there is a stile in it. There is then a plantation 

 to cross ; and the stranger comes out upon the rocky brow 

 which commands a view as fine as any seen from a similar 

 elevation, and different from all others ; embracing the whole 

 valley of the Derwentwater and Bassenthwaite lakes, with 

 the enclosing hills. The chasm which opens downwards 

 a little to the left is ^at(||*g; ^Biafte, the gully through 

 which the Countess of Derwentwater escaped with th'e 

 family jewels when the officers of the Crown took posses- 

 sion of the mansion on I^ord's Island. If the stranger re- 

 lishes fatigue and danger, he can get down where the lady 

 got up ; or he may recross the stile and descend the Cat- 

 gill gorge a little further to the south. He must keep the 

 wall of the plantation on his right all the way. There is a 

 rough path, but it is not an expedition to be made by any 

 one who is not surefooted. This path leads finally across 



