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Page 70:-
wad, the greatest precaution has scarcely been able to keep
the miners honest. The principal owner is H. Bankes, Esq.
Its main use is for the manufactory of pencils, which the
artist would now find it a great inconvenience to want.
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Stockley Bridge
Sty Head
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After leaving the mine and Seathwaite, keeping Taylor's Gill
on the right, Stockley Bridge will tempt the artist to make
a momento of it, and the rest will also prepare him for the
ascent up Aaron, which leads in a zig-zag course, till it
reaches the Stye Head, one thousand two hundred and fifty
feet above the valley. The tarn under Great End Crag is a
fine subject for the pencil. A mile from hence up a runner
is Sprinkling Tarn, noted by all anglers for its trout.
Hence
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Sca Fell
Scafell Pikes
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SCAFELL PIKES
May be most conveniently ascended. The South Pike, which is
three thousand and ninety-two feet in height, is most
accessible from Wastdale or Eskdale. This aspiring pinnacle
presents a more sublime and not less elegantly-varied range
of mountains, dales, and sea views, than either Helvellyn or
Skiddaw; a considerable part of the Lancashire, Cumberland,
and Scotch coasts, with the Isle of Man and Snowdon in Wales
being visible. The Pike which is three thousand one hundred
and sixty feet in height on the north peak of the fell,
commands a view of Windermere and Derwent lakes; and, upon
the whole, presents a more com-
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-- "Wad Mine" -- (black lead mine, Seathwaite)
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-- "Scafell Pikes" -- Scafell Pike
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-- "Sprinkling Tarn" -- Sprinkling Tarn
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-- "Stockley Bridge" -- Stockley Bridge
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-- "Stye Head" -- Sty Head
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