THIRD TOUR. 



CIECTTIT OB BASSENTHWAITE. 



From Keswick to Peel Wyke... 



To Ouse Bridge 



„ Castle Inn 



„ Bassenthwaite 



„ Keswick 



8 miles, 

 1 ), 

 1 ., 

 3 „ 

 5 ,, 



Total 18 



Bassenthwaite is, perhaps^ tlie last of the lakes to 

 be visited^ unless it be Hawes Water. Hawes 

 Water is difficult of access to the or- 

 dinary tourist ; and ±5assenthwaite 

 verges towards the fiat country^ which is not what 

 the traveller came to visit. It is amusing to observe 

 how the residents in the district become more 

 sensible every year to the beauty of the merely 

 undulating country through which the mountains 

 sink into the plains ; while the strangers have 

 hardly patience to look at it, in their eagerness to 

 find themselves under the shadow of the great 

 central fells. Bassenthwaite is one of the outer- 

 most lakes : and it is therefore no more cared for 

 by the tourist in general than the foot of Coniston 

 or Windermere. Still, considering that Skiddaw 

 overshadows its eastern shore, it would seem wor- 

 thy of some attention ; and the drive of eighteen 

 miles round it is, in truth, a very pleasant one. 



This lake is larger than Derwent Water, being 

 four miles in length and one mile in breadth. The 



