PART II. 



KESWICK AND ITS ENVIRONS. 



From Ambleside to Grasmere 4 miles. 



Via Dunmail Raise to Horse's Head, Wythbum 3J „ 



„ Margin of Thirl mere to Legberthwaite (Dale Head)... 3 „ 



„ Castlerigg to Keswiek 51 



Total 16 



Some call Ambleside the head-quarters of the Lake 

 District; others Keswick. It is not necessary 

 to settle this point of precedence here. Having 

 treated Ambleside first, because the tourist arrived 

 there first, Keswick claims the next notice. 



The road from Ambleside to Keswick has already- 

 fallen under our observation as far as Grasmere, and 



its conspicuous white inn, the Swan. 



That inn had the honour of providing 

 Scott with a daily draught of something o-ood, 

 when he was, in his early days, the guest of Words- 

 worth and his sister at Grasmere, — their board 

 being conscientiously humble, as they used to tell, 

 to a degree which did not suit the taste of their 

 guest. By some device or another, Scott managed 

 to pay a daily visit to the Swan without his friends 

 being aware of it. But, when he, Wordsworth, and 



