KIHKFELL. 



168 WASTDALE TO C ALDER ABBEY. 



a moral way, and refuse to have their children 

 baptised into thievery. 



Kirkfell, which stands backward, between Yew- 

 barrow and Great Gable, was very tempting to a 

 tourist who explored this neighbour- 

 hood some years ago; and he set out 

 to get to Buttermere by Blacksail and Scarf Gap. 

 After hours of walking, he struck into the deep 

 ravine between Kirkfell and Great Gable ; and 

 when he arrived within sight of a lake at night, he 

 was confounded to find it still Wast Water. He 

 had walked completely round the mountain, instead 

 of getting on ! We observed to a comrade that this 

 could not have happened if the tourist had carried 

 a pocket-compass. "And not having a compass," 

 said our friend, " he fetched one." Wastdale Head 

 is the place whence the ascent of Scawfell should be 

 made : but we must defer that, as it would occupy 

 the energies of a whole day. The party will now 

 return the way they came ; for there is no road, of 

 course, under the Screes, though the shepherds 

 venture along a perilous thread of a path in the 

 loose debris. 



After breakfast the travellers will address them- 

 selves to the very different spectacle of Calder 

 Abbey and its environs. 



After climbing the long hill from Strands, an 

 eager look-out will be kept for the Isle of Man : 

 but the most probable point for seeing 

 it is at the top of the hill between 

 Gosforth (the reddest of villages) and 

 Calder Bridge. Far off at sea rises the outline of 

 its mountains ; and when the wind is east, we have 

 repeatedly seen the shadows filling the hollows of 



STRANDS TO 

 CALDEB ABBEY 



