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lengthens out as he attempts it, and he is often 

 tempted to believe that his guiding crag must 

 belong to some range still further off. It is, how- 

 ever, one of the Dove Crags and when he has passed 

 a small tarn, nearly an hour after he left the fold, 

 he finds himself not far from the foot of it. He 

 must climb to the top, and then what a view opens 

 all around him! Below him he sees Brothers' 

 Water, with High Hartsop lying beyond it; then 

 his eye travels over Place Fell and the whole of 

 the Ullswater range, and he catches a glimpse of 

 the lake at the Pooley Bridge end. Turning a little 

 to the right he perceives Kidsty Pike, High Street, 

 and 111 Bell, the latter over the shoulder of the Red 

 Screes. Looking back the way he came, he sees 

 both ends of Windermere, Blelham Tarn, Esthwaite, 

 Coniston, and the sea at the Lancaster and Dud- 

 don sands : while, by turning more to the west, he 

 catches many fine points of the Fairfield ridge, and 

 one peep of Helvellyn. There are many directions 

 in which it would well repay him to explore. Per- 

 haps the most tempting is the dropping down upon 

 Brothers' Water, to which he will see a path far 

 below him in a valley at his feet. He might as- 

 cend the Red Screes from this point : or he might 

 turn towards Fairfield, and, after walking along 

 the ridge, regain the Scandale valley at the sheep- 

 fold, which all the time serves him as a valuable 

 landmark. 



XII. Very few tourists ascend the Scandale or 

 Bed Screes, and yet it is an expedition well worth 

 scivniM- ok a great deal more exertion than is 

 bid scebes. necessary to accomplish it. The tra- 

 veller must pursue the road up the Kirkstone 



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