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easily gained, from whence there is still a rough cart or sledge 

 track to the quarries. It is best to go on this track right 

 across the common (avoiding the first turn to the left) and 

 get to the excavations at the verge of the precipice and the 

 ; wonderful sledge-path down it. Very good walkers can go 

 on a little further and get down Bull Gill into the Honister 

 road ; but those not so sure-footed will proceed further until 

 descent is easy between the streamlets which run towards 

 the top of the Hause. The journey home will thus be as 

 described at page 247. 



SCARTH GAP. 

 (Smiles.) 



This forms part of the Wastdale Head excursion ; but it 

 may be as well to point out to those who do not undertake 

 the whole of the tour that to the top of the Gap and back 

 forms a most interesting and very beautiful walk of eight 

 miles. 



The way is by the main road towards Honister Pass, and, 

 on arriving at ©ateggattfj Farm, turn in at the gate leading 

 to the house ; cross the little bridge into the farm-yard , then 

 through a field to the right ; and, after crossing the stream, 

 the steep zig-zags commence. A short distance from where 

 the climb begins, the track turns to the left, a gate is passed 

 through, and it becomes very rugged and stony. The views 

 from the top on a fine day are magnificent, Buttermere, sur- 

 rounded by some of the loftiest mountains in the district, 

 lying beneath. By dropping a little way down on the other 

 side of the Gap, the entire stretch of the Ennerdale valley, 

 its lake, and the far-ofi" Irish Sea come into view, while close 



