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sharp down the very steep hill to Colwith Bridge. 

 Colwith Force, a little further on, will make itself 

 heard and seen. It tumbles from a height of 

 seventy feet, and the adjuncts are beautiful. One 

 mile further along the winding road or lane, Lang- 

 dale Tarn comes into view, with Wetherlam swel- 

 ling up grandly to the south of it. About a mile 

 further on, there is a gate from which the road 

 parts ; — the straight-forward one leading on to 

 Blea Tarn and Langdale ; and the left hand one, 

 which our travellers must follow, leading to Fell 

 Foot, and the old road from Kendal to White- 

 haven, which was the only route before carriers' 

 carts found their way into the region. 

 FELL EooT, j,^|| Foot was thc house of entertain- 

 ment whence the pack-horse cavalcade began the 

 ascent, or where they stopped to congratulate them- 

 selves on having accomplished the descent. The 

 asceut of Wrynose from this point is long and 

 rather steep : but the views behind become grander 

 with every step. The travellers are now in West- 

 morland ; but at the Three Shire Stones 

 BHiBB STONES. ^^ ^^g ^^p^ where three counties meet, 



they will step into Lancashire, in order to leave it 

 for Cumberland at Cockley Beck bridge, within 

 three miles further on. We are glad that a spirited 

 citizen of Ambleside, to whom his neighbours are 

 under great obligations, has erected a stone pillar 

 at the spot where the shire stones are, that the 

 junction of counties may not be overlooked — as it 

 easily might be before — by the unobservant tra- 

 veller. Young tourists, who happen to have long 

 limbs, may enjoy the privilege of being in three 

 counties at once, by setting their feet on two of 



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