THIRD TOUR. 



FEOM STEAITDS AND WAST WATEE TO SCALE HILL IHN, 



JFrom Strands to Gosforth 

 To Calder Bridge 



„ Ennerdale Bridge 



„ Lamplugh Cross 



„ Lowes Water 



„ Scale HiU ... 



Total 23 



miles. 



The objection to seeing Wast Water early in the 



morning is, that Scawfell may too probably be 



covered with clouds. He does not take 



WAST WAIEB. i3? 1 • • 1 i. J.1 1 



on his nightcap so soon as the pleasure- 

 seeker. On this account, we have preferred, when 

 weather was favourable, the Fell Foot way to 

 Strands, as leaving time for an evening-drive to 

 Wastdale Head, — five miles and back again. The 

 travellers by Broughton must no doubt wait till the 

 morning. Taking a cup of tea and a crust, and 

 ordering breakfast for two hours hence, the party 

 may start early for the far-famed Wast Water, — 

 the most solemn and imposing of all the lakes. For 

 some way the road is a pretty lane, with frequent 

 gates till the beautiful abode of Crook End, the 

 seat of Stanfield Rawson, Esq., is passed. Hawl 

 Ghyll and the other fissures are probably breathing 

 forth their vapours, which keep ascending all the 

 way. There are The Screes, with the grey and still 

 lake, — too deep to be ever frozen, — lying at the 



