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of June. The weather proved favourable, but the number of 

 members was not so great as on the former unsuccessful visit in 

 1880. On the arrival of the first train from Newcastle the party 

 proceeded in conveyances through Garrigill Gate, and along tho- 

 rough mountain road that leads by the Cashwell mine and the 

 ruins of the old Cross Fell mine to a mining shop just below the 

 north-western escarpment of the mountain. Advancing by this 

 route, after arriving at the top of the ridge, above Garrigill, 

 which forms the eastern slope of Eotherhope Fell, the incline of 

 the road is so gradual that you ascend almost imperceptibly from 

 a height of 1,800 feet to within about 500 yards of the top. The 

 highest part of Cross Fell is 2,892 feet, but the road is so rough 

 during the last part of the drive, and so perched on the side of a 

 hill, that most of the party preferred walking to being, perchance, 

 toppled down to the level of Cashburn. Arrived at the head of 

 Drypot Burn the horses and drivers were rested in, the stables of 

 an old mining shop, and fortunately here we also secured a guide, 

 who was not unwilling to do the honours of leading the party to 

 the top, and shewing the views, or some of them., that are to be 

 seen from this summit. The last part of the ascent was, not-r 

 withstanding the pure invigorating breeze, a tough one for un- 

 trained town, pedestrians, whose smoke-dried lungs hesitated for 

 a while to admit such pure ethereal ozone. On reaching the 

 top, above the Gentleman's Well (a pure spring of the coldest 

 water, even in summer), only a very flat table land, desolate and 

 unattractive, presented itself. Each one having followed the 

 course he thought easiest to the top, on reaching the summit the 

 party was considerably divided, but having been again collected 

 together, the guide led the way to the western edge of the Fell, 

 where there suddenly broke on the view one of those almost un- 

 bounded panoramas that are beyond description and detail. On 

 this occasion, though the breeze at the western side was so strong 

 as to almost lift the explorer from the ground, yet the far western 

 distance was obscured in an undefined haze, and as the time did 

 not allow of waiting for clearer evening rays, the landscape was 

 viewed from all sides, and the length and breadth of the dreary 

 flattened top of the Fell was traversed, only a few Golden Plovers 



