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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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