196 LANG DALE. 



and splashing, while the light ash, and all the 

 vegetation besides, is everlastingly in motion from 

 the stir of the air. Above, a bridge is made, high 

 aloft, by the lodgment of a block in the chasm. 

 The finest season for visiting this force is in a sum- 

 mer afternoon. Then the sun streams in obliquely, 

 — a narrow, radiant, translucent screen ; itself light- 

 ing up the gorge, but half concealing the projections 

 and waving ferns behind it.- The way in which it 

 converts the spray into sparks and many-coloured 

 gems can be believed only by those who have seen it. 

 The three ways from this point are, first, down 

 Langdale to its junction with the Brathay valley, or 



by High Close to Grasmere : secondly, 

 l^gdalb. by WaU End tQ Blea Tarnj and the 



Fell F\>ot road : and thirdly, b}^ Stickle Tarn, up 

 Harrison Stickle, or over into Easedale. We have 

 little to observe about the first, — Langdale having 

 been described (p. 75,) as seen from High Close. 

 Langdale Chapel is a primitive hamlet, where the 

 old character of the district is well preserved. The 

 little chapel was re-built in 1857—8, chiefly we un- 

 derstand by the munificence of two private indivi- 

 duals. A few years since, the pulpit of the old 

 chapel fell, with the clergyman, Mr. Frazer, in it, 

 just after he had begun his sermon from the text 

 " Behold, I come quickly." The pulpit fell on an 

 elderly dame who escaped wonderfully. Mr. Frazer, 

 as soon as he found his feet, congratulated her on 

 surviving such an adventure : but she tartly refused 

 his sympathy, saying, " If I'd been kilt, Fd been 

 reet sarrat [rightly served,] for you threeatened 

 ye'd be comin doon sune." Near this chapel is the 

 Thrang slate-quarry, where the stranger should 



