128 SCALE HILL. 



sweeping round Rannerdale Knot. Mellbreak 



fills up the opposite shore, with its 

 ''Xm'' isolated bulk; and Eed Pike discloses 



its crater; both being streaked with 

 red and lead-coloured screes, and tracks of bright 

 verdure and brighter moss. On the side where the 

 road is, Whitelees, Grassmoor, and Whiteside rear 

 their swelling masses ; and the road winds pleasant- 

 ly among fields and meadows, till it passes behind 

 the Lanthwaite Woods, and turns down, in full 

 view of the rich Vale of Lorton, to Scale Hill Inn. 



This inn should be the traveller's rest- 

 °°^j^j^^™ ing-place for days together, if he 



desires a central point whence he may 

 visit a great extent of the Lake-country, while in 

 command of a variety of pleasures near at hand. 

 From Scale Hill he can descend into the Vale of 

 Lorton, and enjoy a change from the ruggedness of 

 the dales. Or, he may visit the most solemn and 

 imposing of the lakes, — Wast Water : and also 

 Ennerdale. He commands all the roads to Keswick, 

 and the vales that lie between. Crummock Water 

 yields char, as well as every other lake-fish, in 

 abundance. The mountain tops are accessible ; 

 from Low Fell, which may be a lady's morning 

 walk, to Red Pike, which is a pretty good day's 

 scramble for a stout student. There is Lowes 

 Water at one end of Crummock, and Buttermere 

 at the other; and at home there is a spacious, 

 clean, airy house, standing in a pleasant garden. 



A few minutes will take the stranger up to the 

 Station, by a path from the inn door. The Station 

 is a hill in Lanthwaite Wood, whence a mag- 

 nificent view is obtained of a stern mountain- 



