button to main menu  Description of Sixty Studies, pp.88-89
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From what has been said about the carriage road to Wast Water, it will be evident that the same ground must be gone over from Keswick as from Ambleside, but in what direction to the best advantage will not be easily discovered; Coniston Water, Lowes Water, and the road from Coniston to Broughton would induce the tourist to go south about, but that part of the road which lies between Ambleside and Keswick may, perhaps, throw the preponderance into the other scale.
The rout, on foot or horseback, from Keswick to Wast Water, is by the inn at Buttermere, Scale Force, (which leave on the left) and over the mountains by Fluttering Tarn to Ennerdale Water, Ennerdale Bridge, Calder Bridge and Abbey, Gosforth, Nether Wastdale, and Wast Water; from which return by Wastdale Head, Sty Head Tarn, Seathwaite, Rosthwaite, Bowder Stone, Grange, Lowdore, and
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Barrow, to Keswick; and the traveller, though his guide should propose to proceed through Borrowdale rather than Buttermere, must take the latter way, because as the object of this journey is to see Wast Water, he would, if he went through Borrowdale, pass from the head of the lake to its foot, which is not so desirable as the reverse.
But should the Scale Force road be objected to for horses, the tour may be made by Scale Hill, Lowes Water, and Lampleugh, meeting the road first spoken of at Ennerdale Bridge.
Wast Water is four miles long, and about three quarters of a mile over in the broadest part; on the Screes or eastern side it is of a tolerably straight line, but the opposite shores are irregular, and appear beautifully embayed when seen from the higher grounds; the road is up the western side of the lake, often on its margin,
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