rOURTH TOUR. 



FROM SCAIE HILL, BY H0NI8TEE CEA&, TO KESWICK, 



rrom Scale Hill to Buttermere 



To Gatesgarth 



„ Honister Crag 



„ Seatoller 



„ Eosthwaite 



„ Lodore 



,, Keswick 



4 miles. 



2 » 



2 „ 



2 „ 



2 „ 



3 ,. 

 3 ,, 



Total 18 



The road as far as Buttermere has been described 

 (p. 137.) But the attention of the traveller has 



hardly been sufficiently called to the 

 "^ATBR^^ stormy character of this central dis- 



trictj as shown by the aspect of the 

 mountains. Nowhere else are they so scarred with 

 weather-marks, or so diversified in colouring from 

 new rents in the soil. Long sweeps of orange and 

 grey stones descend to Crummock Water; and 

 above, there are large hollows, like craters, filled 

 now with deep blue shadows, and now with tumb- 

 ling white mists, above which yellow or purple 

 peaks change their hue with every hour of the day, 

 or variation of the sky. The bare, hot-looking 

 debris on the Melbreak side, the chasms in the 

 rocks, and the sudden swellings of the waters, teU 

 of turbulence in all seasons. The most tremendous 

 water-spout remembered in the region of the lakes, 

 descended the ravine between Grassmoor and White- 

 side, in 1760. It swept the whole side of Grass- 



