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ascent, but the * particular rock ' on its western side, which 

 some few, it is said, have accompUshed.^ Great Gable and 

 Kirkfell close in the dale at its head: behind are High 

 Stile and Red Pike, and Gillerthwaite is below, with its 

 circular green level, dropped over with trees, its farm-house 

 and stream, and the lake at the other end. 



Having crossed the beck, the track continues for a third 

 of a mile by the western side of Sail Beck, a small tributary 

 of the Liza which points southward. There is a mountain 

 ash on the way at some height above, which must be 

 reached. It is here that care is required as regards the path ; 

 however, if the beck and its waterfalls, be kept on the left 

 until you have zig-zagged among the crags for another half 

 mile, at the end of which is a bolder mass of rock than the 

 rest, a successful ascent can hardly fail to be accomplished. 

 Above the said rock, the path turns sharply to the right and 



* Those who wish to ascend Scafell and take Green Gable and 

 Great Gable on the way, must not cross the beck, but continue in 

 an almost due south-easterly course by its side. In a very short distance 

 (quarter of a mile) a tributary called Lot's Beck will have to be forded ; 

 the principal stream must still, however, be kept as a guide and com- 

 panion on the right-hand, all the way to its source, and then there 

 will be no difficulty, weather permitting, in reaching the summit of 

 Windy Gap, (which is the depression between the Great and the Green 

 Gables) in something under two miles from the sheep-fold. On arriv- 

 ing there, we have the former on our right and the latter on our left. 

 At page 274, we have alluded to these two important hills and 

 described the views they command. The pedestrian will most probably 

 ascend the former, — the lion-hill of the district, and wonder, if the 

 elements have been favourable, how easily he has got up. Our next 

 work is to reach Styhead Tarn, which is visible on the eastern side, 

 the general direction being as before, — almost due south-east on the slope 

 of Great Gable. The distance between these two points is a mile and 

 a quarter. Having reached the tarn, full instructions for completing 



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