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168 WASTDALE TO CALDEE ABBEY. 



a moral way, and refuse to have their children 

 baptised into thievery. 



Kirkfell, which stands backward, between Yew- 

 barrow and Great Gable, was very tempting to a 

 tourist who explored this neighbour- 

 hood some years ago; and he set out 

 to get to Buttermere by Blacksail and Scarf Gap. 

 After hours of walking, he struck into the deep 

 ravine between Kirkfell and Great Gable ; and 

 when he arrived within sight of a lake at night, he 

 was confounded to find it still Wast Water. He 

 had walked completely round the mountain, instead 

 of getting on ! We observed to a comrade that this 

 could not have happened if the tourist had carried 

 a pocket-compass. " And not having a compass," 

 said our friend, " he fetched one." Wastdale Head 

 is the place whence the ascent of Scawfell should be 

 made : but we must defer that, as it would occupy 

 the energies of a whole day. The party will now 

 return the way they came ; for there is no road, of 

 course, under the Screes, though the shepherds 

 venture along a perilous thread of a path in the 

 loose debris. 



After breakfast the travellers will Address them- 

 selves to the very different spectacle of Calder 

 Abbey and its environs. 



After climbing the long hill from Strands, an 

 eager look-out will be kept for the Isle of Man : 

 but the most probable point for seeing 

 c/™r?BBB.. it is at the top of the hill between 

 Gosforth (the reddest of villages) and 

 Calder Bridge. Far off at sea rises the outline of 

 its mountains ; and when the wind is east, we have 

 repeatedly seen the shadows filling the hollows of 



