HIGH STREET 

 AND ILL BELL. 



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ceeding from 111 Bell along the summit-ridge in a northerly 

 course. It is, however, more easily accessible from Troutbeck 

 Park farm, where a party may leave their carriage to scale the 

 steeper front of the mountain on foot. If the weather prove 

 favourable, the view from either or both of these summits will well 

 repay the tourist for the fatigue of the somewhat steep ascents. 



After crossing the bridge, the road is to be fol- 

 lowed up the valley; and the tourist must lose none 

 of its beauties. Behind him there are views of the 

 receding lake, now diminished to the likeness of a 

 cabinet picture; below is the deep vale with its 

 green levels ; opposite, the grassy slopes ascend the 

 ridges of High Street and 111 Bell; 

 and before him Troutbeck Tongue pro- 

 trudes, splitting the valley into two, 

 and being itself most lovely with its farmstead, and 

 dropped thorns, and coppice and grey rocks : while, 

 behind and above it, the vale head rises into gran- 

 deur, with its torrents leaping down, and its path- 

 way winding up, indicating the pass into Mardale. 

 The stranger is not going that way however. He 

 turns over a gentler pass to the left, which leads 

 him, on the slope of Wansfell, away from Troutbeck. 

 As he bids farewell to the Tongue, he sees the sum- 

 mit of Kirkstone before him. He is passing over 

 the somewhat boggy upland where the Stock takes 

 its rise, to flow down to, and through Ambleside, 

 after having taken the leap called Stockghyll Force. 

 The tourist may see that in the evening, if he has 

 time : — he is going the other way now. 



In leaving Troutbeck it may be as well to state that neither in 

 this nor any other valley have we been able to describe all the 

 walks and drives which it otl'ers. The summer visitor may find 

 in each dale delightful occupation for days and even weeks, should 

 he have time to linger. Wansfell may be ascended from Trout- 

 beck ; and there is a picturesque lane from the lower end of the 

 village to Lowwood on Windermere. 



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