Kinder Scout. \ 4 r 



The best route, when it is desired to ascend this noble 

 eminence, is via Hayfield, beginning at Bowden Bridge, 

 and going up the valley past Farlands. It is indis- 

 pensable, however, either to be provided with a map, or 

 to be accompanied by a guide, as well as to take 

 precautions in regard to possible trespass.* Once upon 

 the summit, the reward is ample, alike in the magnificent 

 scenery, rich with distant purple shadows, and in the 

 inspiring atmosphere. If in the landscape there is 

 nothing gay and festal, no slight thing is it to stand in 

 the presence-chamber of these antique solitudes, reading 

 the silent history of centuries of winter ravage, so terrible 

 that no wonder the very rocks have thrust up their grey 

 heads to ask the meaning of it. No slight thing is it 

 either at any time to find ourselves beside the very urn 

 of a bounding and musical stream, such as trots along 

 the valley, this one having its birth in " Kinder Down- 

 fall " a far-seen shoot of water from the western cliff, 

 a single silver line of pretty cataract that might have 

 heard of Terni and the Bridal Veil, and so much the 

 more precious because the only one of its kind within 

 the distance, which is from Manchester, say precisely 

 twenty miles. Rain of course is needed, as at Lodore, 

 for the full development. 



The writer of the "Guide" says that another very 

 beautiful and not infrequent spectacle to be witnessed 



* All needful particulars will be found in the little "Guide to 

 Hayfield and Kinder Scout," purchasable at Hayfield and at 

 Bowden Bridge. 



