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make the whole round by the ridges which connect Grassmoor 

 with Grisedale Pike, whence the descent is easy upon Braith- 

 waite, a village two-and-a-half miles from Keswick. This is a 

 most lovely circuit, commanding first and last the bright and 

 populous valley of the two lakes, and, for the rest of the 

 way, the Vale of Newlands, with its quiet sheep-walks and 

 folds, and green steeps of Buttermere Hause, and the wild 

 recesses of the mountain group occupying the space between 

 Crummock Water and Derwentwater ; while to the north- 

 west from Grisedale Pike stretches the Vale of Lorton, with 

 its multitudinous fields and scattered hamlets, and the 

 Cocker winding its way to join the Derwent at Cockermouth. 

 The Solway and the Scotch mountains are on the horizon. 

 Causey Pike is 1762 feet above Derwentwater. 



CATBELLS. 

 (Four miles to the summit. ) 



If the milder enterprise of ascending ^atbelle; is pre- 

 ferred, well and good; for that, too, is a charming walk. 

 The way is via Portinscale, and on the road turning south- 

 ward until the walker is opposite Derwentwater Bay ; then 

 the hill must be ascended by a path along the ridge. If he 

 does not mind bits of boggy ground he has nothing to fear, 

 — always supposing the weather to remain clear, and that 

 he has either compass or guide. Looking across the Vale 

 of Newlands, he sees the whole group of summits which 

 overhang Crummock Water and Buttermere; and if he 

 goes on two miles southward, traversing the ridge of 

 X2Eiaitien XBlo^^ii^j he looks into Borrowdale, and even sees 

 the Langdale Pikes, and the great mountain group about 

 Wastwater. 



The descent may be made to Jierlnent^ater Bag, where 



