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Road through Dacre to Pooley Bridge, at the foot of Ulle

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Penruddock Vill.

Observe the peculiar shape of Blencathara, from which the other name of that mountain is taken.

Greta Bank Bridge.

Greta Bank, Thos Spedding Esq

Latrigg, “ Skiddawy Cud.”

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4"And see beyond that hamlet small,

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The ruin'd towers of Threlkeld
Hall."

This hall was once the restdence of Sir Lancelet Threl keld, a powerful knight in the reign of Henry VII. It is now occupied as a farm-house. The Earl of Lonsdale is proprietor. Road to Hesketh-new-Mar ket.

From the hill near the eighth, mile-stone from Keswick, there is a fine view over the vale of 7 Threlkeld to the Newland's Mountains.

9 Road to Hesketh-new-Market.

11 Greystock Castle, two miles

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on the left. The park is very extensive. The mansion is a fine building, containing some good pictures. Greystock Church, built in the reign of Edward II., contains some an eient monuments. Many relics of antiquity abound in the neighbourhood.

water, four miles. Dacre Castle, formerly the residence of the famous border family of Daere," has been converted into a farm- 21 house. The name is derived frora the exploits of one of their ancestors, at the siege of Acrethe St. Jean d'Acre of modern times-in the Holy Land under Richard Cœur de Lion. An- 1] other branch of this clan was' settled at Gilsland in Cumberland. There are many ballads and traditions which still -"proclaim Douglas or Dacre's conquering name."

Bede says, that a monastery lonce stood at Dacre, and about 1930, a congress was held here, at which King Athelstan, accompanied by the King of Cumberland, received homage from Constantine, King of Scotland.

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CXVIII PENRITH-ULLES WATER-PATTERDALE--KIRKSTONE

AMBLESIDE, 24) Miles.

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Instead of the first five miles and three quarters of the road given below, the Tourist may cross Enont Bridge on the road to Kendal, turning to the right a little beyond, to Yanwath vill. (two miles,) leaving King Arthur's Bound Table on the left. Here is Yanwath Hall, an ancient castellated building, a good specimen of the old Westmorland Hall. Sockbridge vill, is a mile further. The hall at this place is a in leserving the attention of the artist. Barton church is seen on the right a mile beyond. Pooley Bridge is reached five miles and three quarters from Penrith.

It has been recommended, that, in order to see the lower part of Ulles Water to advantage, the Westnior and margin should be traversed for three or four miles; a boat might be in readiness to convey the stranger across the lake to the road usually taken.

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Waterfoot, Col. Salmond.

To reach Pooley Bridge a 184 quarter of a mile distant at the foot of the lake, a turn must be made to the left. The Sun is an excellent hotel. at Pooley Bridge, where posthorses and boats can be obtained. There is a good view, of the lake from Dunmallet, a bill near the village.

Road to New Church, so 17 called, in distinction froni Old Church, which stood on the margin of the lake. The for mer was consecrated by Bishop Oglethorpe in 1558, while on his way to crown Queen Eliza beth; an office he had soon to regret having undertaken, when all the other prelates had refused, for he as well as the other Roman Catholie Bishops were shortly afterwards deprived.

Lyulph's Tower, a hunting 134
seat, the property of Mr How
ard. There is a splendid view,
of the lake from the front.

List, ye who pass by Lyulphs
Tower

At ere; how softly then
Doth Aira Force, that torrent
hoarse,

Speak from the woody glen!
it music for a solemn vale!
And holler seems the ground
To him who catches on the gale
The spirit of a mournful tale
Badied in the sound.
TOADSWORTH's Somnambulist.

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stand against a troop of Scottish mosstroopers at this place. The leader was thereafter styled King of Patterdale,a title borne for many years by his descendants.

Bilberry Crag.
Patterdale Hall

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8cr. Deepdale Beck.

Brother's Water, backed by Dove Crags and other acelivities, clothed with native wood. This small sheet of water is aid to take its name from the circumstance of two brothers 6 having been once drowned in it whilst skating.

The summit of the pass is 31 fenced in by the Red Screes on the right, and Woundale Head on the left. The large block of stone

-whose Church-like frame Gives to the savage Pass its namestands on the right of the road. The Romans are supposed to have marched through this depression on their way northwards from the station at Ambleside. Near the summit, a road diverges on the left into the valley of Troutbeck. At the point of deviation, a small inn has lately been erected. In the lescent, which is excessively teep, the views of Windermere and the vale of Ambleside are very Ane. Wansfell Pike is onl the left Loughrigg Fell on the right of the vale.

High Hartsope.

Enter the common and climb the pass of Kirkstone.

AMBLESIDE.

Inns-Salutation, Commercial, and White Lion.

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terminates the second rah. The first island, House Holm.

Glenridding House, Rev. H. Askew.

This stream takes its rise ta Keppel Cove and Red Tarms, which lie near the summit of Helvellyn. That mountain may be ascended through this glen.

Place Fell, with a patch of cultivated ground on which are two farm houses lying at its base, has a striking effect on the opposite shore.

A mountain road, practicable jonly for horsemen and pedes trians, conducts through Grisedale into Grasmere.

There is a good inn at this place, which, if the Touri have time, should be made b.s head quarters for some daya, as there is much to see in the neighborhood

Road into Martindale acroNS Deepdale Beck.

The road is now through flat meadows on the banks of the stream, to another branch, which flows from Brother's Water.

Hartsope Village. Hayes Water, a tarn well known to 18 the angler, lies between High Street and Grey Crag, two miles above Hartsope. Angle Tarn in the same neighbourhood is noted for the superior flavour of its trout.

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