CONISTON TO 

 BEOUGHTON. 



152 AMBLESIDE TO BROUGHTON. 



cuit of about ten miles longer^ and will take up the 

 pedestrians for the remaining six miles to Strands. 

 The drive to Coniston has been already described, 

 as far as the point at which it diverges from the 

 Brathay valley, (p. 73.) It then skirts 

 the grounds of Brathay Hall, and passes 

 near the lake at Pullwyke Bay. About 

 a mile further on Blelham Tarn comes into view on 

 the left, and at Hawkshead Old Hall, two miles fur- 

 ther, the traveller finds himself on familiar ground. 

 (See p. 38.) The road now to be followed passes 

 through Coniston and Torver, and then diverges 

 from the lake, overlooking a region in which the 

 hills sink into heathery undulations, which again 

 subside into a wild alluvion which stretches to the 

 estuary. There is, as was before mentioned, now 

 a railway from Coniston to Broughton, but this 

 description is given as it originally stood for the 

 sake of what follows. The travellers must see 

 the Duddon, and in order to get to it they and 

 their carriage must go to Broughton. When 

 it is high water, the scene is fine : but the vast 

 reaches of sand at low water are dreary. The 

 coast-railway is seen crossing the estuary, — its 

 cobweb tracery showing well against the sand or 

 the water. Near at hand Broughton Tower rises 

 from the woods above the little town : but there 

 is nothing else to detain the eye. Tourists who 

 desire to ascend Black Combe, should 

 BLACK COMBE. ^^ ^^ fi'om hencc, — the summit being 

 only six miles from Broughton; and guides are 

 here to be procured. Wordsworth says of this 

 mountain that "its base covers a much greater 

 extent of ground than any other mountain in those 



