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It is not necessary to say much about the railway journey. 

 The map shows that it is a wide circuit by Bassenthwaite, 

 Cockermouth, Marron Junction (or Workington, according 

 to the time tables) and, southward, to Seascale, where a car 

 will be taken for the remaining 10 miles to the head of 

 Wastdale. The return drive would be by ©Taltiet Ml}Az^, 

 and, if B.nnertJale ^afee be visited, it would be well to stay 

 at the Seascale Inn all night, and take rail to Frizington 

 station, which is five miles from Ennerdale, in the morning. 



KESWICK TO ULLSWATER. 



There are three recognised ways of reaching UUswater 

 from Keswick. We will give them separately : — 



I. — ® ribins by carriage-road, via Threlkeld ; crossing the 

 railway at ^xonihttk^ Station ; under the western side of 

 Mill Fell; Matterdale and Docwray villages; and then down 

 upon the lake at the western end of Gowbarrow Park. The 

 first part of the road, as far as Threlkeld, has been abun- 

 dantly described (p. 256). After this it becomes wild and 

 bleak, though commanding noble distant views of the Keswick 

 mountains and of the saddle-shaped Old Blencathra. Mell 

 Fell, — the ugliest of hills, like a tumulus planted all over 

 with larch, — grows larger as the traveller proceeds, till he 

 finds he is to make a sharp turn to the right, and pass directly 

 under it. Judging from our own experience, we should say 

 that this part of the journey is always broiling hot or bitter 

 cold. A bleak high-lying track it certainly is, where the old 

 monks no doubt suffered much and often in their expeditions. 

 The paternoster said among the perils of UUswater, and 

 the Ave Maria here, are supposed by some to have given 

 * Not to be mistaken for the Troutbeck, near Windermere. 



