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the traveller has on his left Red Pike, High Stile, 

 and High Crag, and on his right Pillar and Kirk 

 Fell, while in front the valley is closed in by Grreat 

 Gable. The river that dashes down the centre is 

 the Liza. The most interesting feature in the 

 landscape is the Pillar Rock, so like a gigantic 

 column as to have given its name to the mountain 

 of which it forms a part. This rock used to be 

 believed inaccessible, but there have been adven- 

 turous tourists on the top of it. Their names are 

 preserved in a bottle which is left in some crevice 

 on its summit. Last summer this bottle contained 

 nine names. The ascent is looked upon as foolhardy 

 by some of the most experienced guides of the 

 district. 



There are mountain roads from Ennerdale to 

 Lowes Water, over Blake Fell, and by Floutern 

 Tarn to Scale Force and Buttermere. The distance 

 to each is six miles. The Blake Fell road, presently 

 to be described, parts off from the other in a north- 

 erly direction just before FJoutern Tarn is reached. 

 The road to Buttermere is not well marked between 

 the tarn and Scale Force, as the ground is boggy. 

 The tarn must be passed on the right, and then the 

 general direction is easterly. There are three sheep- 

 folds which must be passed ; and if the day is clear 

 the traveller may guide himself in his descent by 

 keeping in a line with the Vale of Newlands, the 

 top of which is distinctly visible. 



We have mentioned the young man who spent 

 the whole of a precious day in walking round Kirk 

 Fell. Worse happened, in October, 1852, to two 

 gentlemen who went with a pony, but without a 

 guide, from Buttermere to Wastdale Head, by Scarf 



