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getting over it ! We observed to a comrade that this could 

 not have happened if the tourist had carried a pocket- 

 compass. ' And not having a compass/ said our friend, ^ he 

 fetched one.' 



The vigorous pedestrian will certainly ascend ^cafell 

 ^ike before he leaves Wastdale ; and it may be done by 

 those who have come from Buttermere and still leave time 

 to go on to Calder or return to his head-quarters the same 

 evening. For those who are racing against time, and are 

 anxious to make each course in some seconds less than it 

 has ever been done before, the most direct way is advisable, 

 and that is, starting from any house at Wastdale Head, to 

 make straight for the wall which runs down the face of 

 Lingmell, (not the one by which the ordinary route goes, but 

 higher up the valley). This leads over the top of Jliingmell 

 to )^eet0 ©ill ^H^eat, but, as soon as the brow becomes 

 not so exceedingly steep, the wall should be abandoned, and 

 a straight course made over smooth slopes of grass, which 

 are exceedingly good going, for the base of the huge mound 

 of loose stone lying right in front, at about three-quarters of 

 a mile distance, up which is the last ascent and the summit 

 is reached. For the benefit of the foolish folk who choose 

 this rpute, it may be mentioned that good time from Ritson's 

 to the top is ih. 20m. 



' But he who wishes to rescue a day completely from the 

 oblivion which conceals nearly all our past " good times," 

 and to bear a faithful image in his memory of the more 

 striking features of this majestic mountain, should not hurry 

 himself to make the ascent at all hazards, but wait till some 

 happy morning gives him "promise of a glorious day." 



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