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Page 62:-
'A dreary plain,
With a tumultuous waste of huge hill-tops,
A savage region.'
But from the top is opened out a magnificent scene of
mountains, inclosing the Vale of Rosthwaite, Seathwaite, and
Stonethwaite, and their wild boundaries. The return from
Rosthwaite to Keswick is past the Bowder Stone, and along
the banks of Derwent Water; or it may be by the top of
Lowdore Fall, for the sake of the view of Derwent Water,
Skiddaw, &c.
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Thirlmere
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THE WEST SIDE OF LEATHES WATER.
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Castle Rock
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From Keswick the tourist must proceed on the Ambleside road
till he arrives at the end of Shoolthwaite Moss, where he
will deviate to the right into a rugged cart-road. This
leads to the foot of the lake, and thence along its western
side, as before described, to Armboth. Cross the lake here,
and pass through the park of Dale Head Hall as far as the
main road, whence is the fine view of Legberthwaite, with
Blencathra as its background. Pass through this rugged
valley, affording room for little more than the road and
river, to the rock of St. John's or Green Crag. The approach
into the valley from Threlkeld displays this rock in the
most poetical point of view, and under some states of
atmosphere it requires no stretch of the imagination to
transform its grey perpendicular masses into an impregnable
castle, whose walls and turrets
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-- "St John's Crag" -- Castle Rock
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