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Crummock Water and Derwent Water; while to 

 the north-west from Grisedale Pike stretches the 

 Vale of Lorton, with its multitudinous fields and 

 scattered hamlets, and the Cocker winding its way 

 to join the Derwent at Cockermouth. The Solway 

 and the Scotch mountains are on the horizon. 



VIII. If the milder enterprise of ascending 



Catbells is preferred, well and good ; for that, too, 



is a charming walk : but, in that case, 



catbells. a boat sll0u i d be orc iered to be in wait- 

 ing in Derwent Water Bay, or a car at Grange, 

 at the entrance of Borrowdale. Instead of going 

 quite to Swinside, the traveller will pursue the road 

 past Swinside Cottage, on the way to the two 

 farmhouses of Gutherscale and Skelghyll, on the 

 skirts of the smooth green mountain of Catbells. 

 If he does not mind bits of boggy ground, he has 

 nothing to fear, — always supposing the weather to 

 remain clear, and that he has either compass or 

 guide. Looking across the Vale of Newlands, he 

 sees the whole group of summits which overhang 

 Crummock Water and Buttermere; and if he 

 comes down after traversing the ridge of Maiden 

 Moor, he looks into Borrowdale, as it stretches 

 southwards, even seeing the Langdale Pikes, and 

 the great mountain group above Wastwater. From 

 Maiden Moor, he will descend by a track in the 

 turf, close upon Grange ; and he can return either 

 by car, or by meeting his boat in Derwent Water 

 Bay. In the last case, he will follow the road back 

 which skirts Catbells at some height above the lake, 

 or will turn into the foot-path which leads through 

 the woods and over the meadows of Brandelow Park, 

 coming out upon Derwent Water Bay at Hawse End. 



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