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The Lake of Buttermere and Honister Crag 

 must be left for another day. To-day, the turn is 

 to the right, and not to the left. The traveller 

 may proceed along Crummock Water either by 

 boat or in his carriage. Or he may leave the horse 

 to bait at Buttermere while he takes a boat to see 

 Scale Force and returns. 



The meadow between the two lakes is not more 

 than a mile in extent. The walk to the boat lies 

 through its small patches of pasture 

 and wooded knolls ; and a pretty walk 

 it is. The path is prolonged to Scale Force over 

 the fields ; but it is usually too swampy to be agree- 

 able, when a boat can be had. A short row brings 

 the stranger to the mouth of the stream from the 

 force : and he has then to walk a mile amonsr 

 stones, and over grass, and past an old fold. There 

 is a way across the fell from this point to Enner- 

 dale, which will be described hereafter. The chasm 

 between two walls of rock, which are feathered with 

 bright waving shrubs, affords a fall of one hundred 

 and sixty feet, — high enough to convert the 

 waters into spray before they reach the ground. It 

 is one of the loftiest waterfalls in the country ; and 

 some think it the most elegant. There is a point 

 of view not far off which the traveller should visit. 

 His boat will take him to the little promontory 

 below Mellbreak, called Ling Crag. From two 

 hundred yards or rather more above this, he will 

 see the two lakes and their guardian-mountains to 

 the greatest advantage. 



The drive along Crummock Water is one of the 

 most charming we know ; especially where the road 

 forms a terrace, overhanging the clear waters, and 



