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and High Street. It may be worth observing 

 that the name of the first mentioned of these 

 mountains is generally written Hill Bell. This is 

 a mistake. The old name is 111 Bell — ill meaning, 

 in this connexion, evil, ditlicult, i. e. difficult of 

 ascent. The natives of the district call it 111 

 Bell, and the addition of the H in writing at- 

 tributes to them a cockneyism which does not 

 enter into their dialect. These excursions will be 

 described in their proper places, in connexion with 

 the drive through Troutbeck, as the traveller will 

 have to pass through that valley before he begins 

 his ascent. 



BOWNESS. 



Bowness is the port of AVindermere. There the 

 new steamboats put up ; and thence go forth 

 the great number of fishing and pleasure boats 

 which adorn the lake. There is a goCtl deal 

 of bustle in the place ; and the lower parts, near 

 the water, are very hot in summer : and the more 

 since the building of a new lodging-house in a 

 space near the church, which used to be called the 

 lungs of Bowness. The three great inns, however, 

 are in airy situations ; the garden platform of the 

 Royal Hotel, so called since the visit of Queen 

 Adelaide in 1810, overlooking the gardens that 

 slope down to the shore; and the Crown and 

 Victoria beincr. on a hill which commands the whole 

 place. These inns are extremely well managed; 

 and it is for the traveller to say whether their 

 charges, which are uniform, justify a complaint 

 which has been made, (we think unreasonably as 

 regards the Lake District in general) of high prices. 



