GREAT WOOD. Ill 



the Walla Crags to be four hundred feet in height, 



adding that the country people believed 

 ge EA twoo D . them ;to be much morei From the 



base of that prodigious wall, the bit of forest called 

 Great Wood slopes down to the road, and in some 

 parts, down to the lake. Through Great Wood 

 winding paths are now cleared ; and to walk in 

 them in spring or autumn, — or indeed at any 

 season when weather will permit, is as rich a treat 

 as can be desired. In one season there are the early 

 wild flowers, the sprouting trees, and the wood- 

 pigeons and other birds, pairing and building ; and 

 in another, there is the squirrel, amidst the drop- 

 ping 1 acorns and hazel nuts. In winter, the robin 

 hops among the frosted leaves in the path : and 

 there are broader glimpses of the lake and the op- 

 posite heights between the leafless trees. There 

 are waterfalls always within hearing; for almost 

 every cleft and channel in the crags has its stream- 

 let, ever busy in making its way to the lake. There 

 are two or three entrances to these wood-paths 

 from the Borrowdale road. There is a pleasant 

 way home by the northern end of the wood, where 

 the path strikes across the field to the coppice called 

 Keswick Springs, whence, among several tracks, 

 there is one due north, which leads out upon the 

 mail road at Brow Top, just above Keswick, on the 

 Ambleside road. 



V. A walk, involving a little more fatigue, is 



that from Castlerigg to the summit of Walla Crag. 



The view from Castlerigg, as it opens 



WALLA CBAG - on the traveller from Ambleside, has 



been described at p. 101. The road which turns 



off from it, southwards, is that which the walker 



