150 BROTHERS^ WATER. 



angler, because it is the delight of the trout. It 

 is overhung by High Street; so that perhaps the 

 Roman Eagles, as well as the native birds of the 

 rocks, have cast their shadows upon its surface. 

 Not far off lies Angle Tarn, on the southern end of 

 Place Fell. Both these tarns send their brooks 

 down to swell the stream from Brothers' Water, 

 which is itself supplied from the busy, noisy beck 

 that descends the Kirkstone Pass; and the whole, 

 united with a tributary from Deepdale, form the 

 clear brown stream which winds through Patterdale, 



and empties itself into Ullswater. Bro- 

 ^waiTb"^ thers' Water derives its name from the 



accident — which is said to have hap- 

 pened twice — 'of brothers being lost in it, in the 

 attempt of one to save the other. On one of the 

 two occasions, the accident happened through the 

 breaking of the ice, when the brothers were making 

 a venturesome short cut across it to church. No 

 persuasion of ours can be necessary to induce any 



traveller to visit Deepdale, if he has 



time. Its aspect from the road is most 

 tempting; only, it cannot, like the walk to Hays 

 Water, be accomplished in the longest summer-day, 

 in addition to the route given for the day. An 

 account of Ambleside will be found at p. 56. 



