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nine miles from Penrith (L. and N.W. main line) ; 

 two miles from Lowther ; and, on its southern ex- 

 tremity, about a mile from Mardale Green. These 

 facts at once suggest ivJiy it is so little visited 



The Penrith road runs parallel to the lake 

 along the whole of its length (2^ miles), and its 

 west bank, which is finely wooded, is bounded by 

 Naddle Forest. Here the red deer from Martin- 

 dale Forest often stray ; and, when hunted, almost 

 invariably make for the lake, where they are 

 taken. The mountain group at the head of the 

 lake is strikingly fine ; Harter Fell, High Street, 

 and Kidsty Pike towering over it in impressive 

 grandeur. 



The principal feeder to Haweswater is Mardale 

 Beck ; its effluent the Lowther. 



The lake contains trout, char, and gwyniad or 

 freshwater herring (" skellies ") ; chub are found in 

 the effluent, and may run into the lake. I have 

 not been able to prove conclusively that the 

 so-called great lake trout exist in Haweswater, 

 but that they did so at one time there can be 

 no question. 1 



Haweswater is the private property of Lord 

 Lonsdale, whose Water-bailiff has the super- 

 vision of the lake. Four or five boats are con- 

 stantly kept upon it, and his lordship's comfort- 

 able boat-house is at the service of visitors who 

 have permission to fish. Application for this 



1 In his Survey of the Lakes^ Clarke records that a pair 

 of white-tailed eagles bred on Walla Crag, overlooking 

 Haweswater. The birds laid two eggs, and when the young 

 were hatched it was that there were taken from the vicinity 

 of the nest thirty- five fish (mostly lake trout), seven lambs, 

 besides other provision of game. The trout were caught in 

 Haweswater, 



