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VIII. Finer still is the opposite terrace road. 

 Some visitors have considered the Loughrigg-terrace 

 walk the finest in the district. It is a 

 ''tZTcT loi^ g stretch from Ambleside, —the cir- 

 cuit being not less than nine miles : but 

 of these four or five can be taken in a carriage, or the 

 whole on horseback. There is a bridle path all the 

 way. The point of departure is Pelter Bridge, a mile 

 and a quarter from Ambleside. Leaving the mail- 

 road, the path on the other side of the river must be 

 taken by crossing the bridge. This path leads behind 

 the farmhouse, and above the stream, till it descends 

 to the margin of Rydal Lake, which it skirts, 

 through some rather boggy ground, which indicates 

 the dryest weather as the best for this walk. From 

 the lake the path ascends, winding among the 

 lower slopes of Loughrigg till a considerable height 

 is attained, where it makes a bold sweep, in the 

 form of a grassy terrace, up the side of Loughrigg, 

 commanding nearly the same view which is de- 

 scribed (p. 76) as so glorious from Red Bank. 

 From the middle of the terrace a mountain is seen 

 in the far distance over Dunmail Raise. This is 

 Saddleback. The terrace-walk ends at the top 

 of Red Bank, whence the descent upon Grasmere 

 is the same as that followed at p. 77. By taking 

 a car, in the first instance^ to Pelter Bridge, and 

 another (or the same) from Grasmere to Ambleside, 

 the walk is reduced to one of four or five miles. 



If, instead of descending Red Bank, the traveller 

 turns in the opposite direction, •— away from Gras- 

 mere instead of towards it, — he will 



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and can refresh himself with " the finest view in 



