BOWDEB STOlfE. 



122 GRANGE. 



— built or building in Borrowdale. The wratK 

 must presently turn to a laugh in the humblest 

 chimney-corner in the dale. 



Rosthwaite is beautifully situated near the centre 

 of the dale, and at the confluence of the two 

 mountain-brooks which form the Der- 

 went. This river flows through the 

 lakes of Derwent Water and Bassenthwaite, passes 

 Cockermouth, and falls into the sea at Workington. 

 Following its course, the traveller reaches the 

 Bowder Stone, at a mile from Bosthwaite, — a 

 fallen rock, standing on its point, and 

 about thirty feet high, and sixty long. 

 There are steps for ascent to the top ; but it is as 

 well seen from below, where it cannot but catch 

 the eye of the passenger. A mile further lies 

 Grange, at the entrance of the dale, with its 

 undulating bridges crossing the wind- 

 ings of the river. When the abbots 

 of Furness owned the whole of Borrowdale, a few 

 monks were placed at its entrance to receive and 

 guard the crops ; and this place was their granary. 

 It is now a picturesque hamlet, which must be 

 familiar to all who haunt exhibitions of pictures. 

 Nobody who carries a pencil can help sitting down 

 on the grass to sketch it. Just behind it, the 

 noble wooded rock, which leaves room only for 

 the road and the river, is Castle Crag ; and nimble 

 youths who have reached its summit say the view 

 is splendid. It is, in itself, a fine spectacle. 



After this, the traveller begins to listen for the 

 fall of Lodore, and he finds the inn at a distance of 

 a mile from Grange. It is a delightful inn, clean 

 and well-managed, and by its situation preferable to 



