38 CONISTON BANK. 



a mile above the Waterhead. This, however, is not a road to be 

 recommended for a carriage. Any but pedestrians had better 

 descend into Tewdale, as indicated before. 



There is now a pretty steam gondola on Coniston, 

 which makes trips about the lake at times arranged 

 to suit the arrival of trains. Row-boats are to be 

 had at the inn. 



We will now complete the tour already begun. 

 Whether the traveller remains at Coniston or not, 

 he must not omit the view from Coniston Bank, 

 described at p. 36. This he may do by ordering 

 his car to meet him in an hour at the junction of 

 the two lake roads, on the Hawkshead road, and 

 walking forward, round the head of the lake. He 

 follows the road already described (p. 36) past Tent 

 Lodge, and arrives at Coniston Bank, after a walk 

 of a mile from the inn. 



Retracing his steps for some way, and passing 

 the turn which would lead him down again to Tent 

 Lodge, the stranger has rather a steep ascent before 

 him, from point to point of which he finds, on look- 

 ing back, new views of the lake appearing, while 

 the magnitude of the Old Man becomes more ap- 

 parent as he recedes from it. By the roadpost, 

 which indicates the two ways to the two sides of 

 the lake, he finds his car; and then he proceeds 

 through a wild country — moorland, sprinkled with 

 grey rock, — in the direction of Hawkshead, which 

 is three miles from Watei-head. 



The group of houses which is passed before de- 

 scending a steep hill to Hawkshead goes by the 

 name of Hawkshead Hill. One of these houses, 

 hardly seen from the road, is a Baptist Chapel, 



