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PART IV.


passes
  mountains

PASSES.

Stake Pass
LANGDALE, FROM BORROWDALE, BY THE STAKE PASS.- PATH TO EASEDALE.- PATH TO ESKHAUSE.
The top of the Stake Pass is five miles and a-half from Rosthwaite. The last house,- Stonethwaite,- is left behind at the end of a mile. The path follows, and at length crosses, the stream, which is the infant Derwent,- finding its way down from Angle Tarn, lying high up in a recess of Bowfell. The rocky mass of Eagle Crag rises on the left; and further on, the curious stone called Black Cap. At the top of the Stake, the guide (who may be had from the inn at Rosthwaite) will point out the great summits,- the Scawfell Pikes, Bowfell, Hanging Knotts and Great Gable. Half a-mile of moorland leads to the descent on the Langdale side; a zigzag path which keeps near the stream that dashes down into Langdale. The
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