SECOND TOUR, 



BY TROrTBECK TO KIRKSTONE PASS AND PATTERDALE, AND 

 DESCENT UPON AMBLESIDE. 



From Bowncss to Kirkstone 



I'i'i Barteop to UUswater 



„ Margin of UUswater to Lyulph's Tower 



Back to Hotel by boat ... 



Via Kirkstone to Ambleside 



Total 32 „ 



As the traveller will have other opportunities of 

 observing the six miles of mailroad between Bow- 

 ness and Ambleside, he may as well go round, and 

 see UUswater, on the day of his removal. Sending 

 his luggage on bv the omnibus to one of the three 

 chief Ambleside inns, he will take a car for the day, 

 and go by Troutbeck to Patterdale. 



The country people will tell him, as he turns up 

 to Troutbeck at Cook's House, that he is going to 

 see " the handsomest view in these parts — especi- 

 ally at the back-end of the year." And wonder- 

 fully fine the views are, as the road ascends, com- 

 manding the eutire lake, and the whole range of 

 mountains from Coniston Old Man to Fairfield. 

 The singular valley of Troutbeck was 

 once a wooded basin, where the terrified 

 Britons took refuge from the Ho mans, while the 

 latter were making; their great road from Kendal 

 to Penrith. That road actually ran along the very 



