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one of the hotels ; but the excursion is quite within the 

 compass of good walkers. 



The road to be taken is the same as to Castle Head, that 

 is, by the eastern side of the lake. Derwentwater is not 

 much seen until three-quarters of a mile have been traversed, 

 when at the top of a hill, with ©reat~\3crc(Cit( on either hand, 

 the southern portion comes into view ; after which, all the way 

 to Lodore, there are most charming peeps between the trees 

 on the margin. In little more than atwo miles, the gate 

 admitting to the ^arrobJ estate and waterfall is reached. As 

 we have said at page 228, strangers are kindly admitted to 

 see the latter ; and very few omit to take advantage of the 

 privilege. The carriage waits at the gate during the fifteen 

 or twenty minutes required for the visit. 



After this, the traveller begins to listen for the ^all of 

 JOiObote. The inn at the fall has been much enlarged lately, 

 and is well managed. To visit the Fall the way is through 

 the garden and orchard, (where the fish preserves are terrible 

 temptations to waste of time), and over the footbridge, and 

 up into the wood, where the path leads to a mighty chasm. 

 It is the chasm, with its mass of boulders and magnificent 

 flanking towers of rock, that makes the impressiveness of 

 Lodore fall, rather than the water. No supply short of a 

 full river or capacious lake could correct the disproportion 

 between the channel and the flood. After the most copious 

 rains, the spectacle is of a multitude of little falls, and no- 

 where is there a sheet or bold shoot of water. The noise is 

 prodigious, as the readers of Southey's description are 

 aware : and the accessories are magnificent. Gowder Crag 

 on the left, and Shepherd's Crag on the right, shine in the 

 sun, or frown in the gloom like no other rocks about any of 

 the falls of the district ; and vegetation flourishes everywhere, 

 from the pendulous shrubs in the fissures, two hundred feet 



