FOURTH TOUR. 



CKVMJIOCK 

 WATEB. 



FROM SCALE ITILE, BY HONISTER CRAG, TO KESWICK. 



From Scale Hill to Buttermere 



ToGatesgarth 



„ Honister Crag 



„ Seatoller 



„ Rosthwaite 



„ Lodore 



„ Keswick 



The road as far as Buttermere has been described 

 (p. 127.) But the attention of the traveller has 

 hardly been sufficiently called to the 

 stormy character of this central dis- 

 trict, as shown by the aspect of the 

 mountains. Nowhere else are they so scarred with 

 weather-marks, or so diversified in colouring from 

 new rents in the soil. Long sweeps of orange and 

 grey stones descend to Crummock Water ; and 

 above, there are large hollows, like craters, filled 

 now with deep blue shadows, and now with tumb- 

 ling white mists, above which yellow or purple 

 peaks change their hue with every hour of the day, 

 or variation of the sky. The bare, hot-looking 

 debris on the Melbreak side, the chasms in the 

 rocks, and the sudden swellings of the waters, tell 

 of turbulence in all seasons. The most tremendous 

 water-spout remembered in the region of the lakes, 

 descended the ravine between (rrassmoor and White- 

 side, in 1700. It swept the whole side of Grass- 



