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Keswick, second tour
  Newlands and Crummock Water
SECOND TOUR.

BY THE VALE OF NEWLANDS, CRUMMOCK WATER, SCALE HILL INN, AND BACK BY WHINLATTER.
MILES.MILES.
KESWICK to Portinscale
Swinside
Keskadale7
Newlands Haws
Buttermere Inn10
4Scale Hill14
4Lorton18
3Summit of Whinlatter21
Braithwaite23½
Keswick26
  woollens
The tour which embraces the country between the four lakes, Derwent Water, Buttermere, Crummock Water, and Bassenthwaite, is one of twenty-six miles; and it should be allowed to occupy the greater part of a day,- time being taken both for survey and refreshment. Its outset will afford a good opportunity for visiting Greta Hall, Southey's abode, and his monument in Crosthwaite Church;- a recumbent statue by Lough,- the inscription being written by Wordsworth. The villages along the road, beginning with Portinscale, will exhibit their own evidence of the employment of the inhabitants in the woollen manufacture; an ancient staple of the town and district, as is shown by the inscription which has come down from the olden time, engraved on a flagstone.

"May God Almighty grant His aid
To Keswick and its woollen trade."
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