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tunnel upon patches of the greenest meadow, by the 

 side of which the Greta brawls musically at the foot 

 of overhanging woods. After skirting Keswick on 

 the north, where it runs under Latrigg and the 

 lofty Skiddaw, the new line makes a circular sweep 

 behind Crosthwaite Church, and crosses the valley 

 to Braithwaite, at the foot of Grisedale Pike; then it 

 follows the line of the old coach-road to Cockermouth, 

 skirting the shores of Bassenthwaite, under the im- 

 posing masses of Barf and Whinlatter Fell. The 

 views on this portion of the line are of great beauty. 



KESWICK. 



Keswick is supposed by some authorities to derive 

 its name from Kesh, the local name for a kind of 

 hemlock that abounds in its neighbourhood, and 

 wick, a village. 



There is no beauty in the primitive little town 

 itself; but it has its attractions, besides the con- 

 venience of its central situation among so many 

 mountains and valleys. Of these attractions, the 

 first is undoubtedly Mr. Flintoff's 

 Model of the Lake District, which is 

 within a few yards of all the principal inns, and 

 may be seen during a shower, when, otherwise, the 

 stranger might be losing temper in hearing the rain 

 drip. That model, — at first sight an uneven ugly 

 bit of plaster, — will beguile a sensible traveller of 

 a longer time than he would suppose possible. Ten 

 minutes would give him a better idea of the struc- 

 ture and distribution of the country than all maps 

 and guide-books ; but he will probably linger over 

 it till he has learned all the sixteen large lakes, and 



