|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
title page |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
previous page
next page |
|
|
|
|
|
Page 44:-
over Butterlip How, a little rocky and wooded hill north of
the inn, proceed to Goody Bridge. Here the road rises into
this quiet dale, and affords a glorious panorama of the
surrounding vale, embracing the lake, church, and
neighbouring dwellings, with Loughrigg behind. Steel Bridge
is an artist-like subject; and Sour Milk Gill and Coldale
Fell, as backgrounds to a bridge, compose admirable objects
for the pencil. This water runs out of Easedale Tarn, one of
the largest of the elevated lakes; Coldale Fell shelters it
from the north and west, and Blakerigg appears over the
water's head, when viewed from its foot; whence also there
is a pretty peep at Hollin Grove, backed by Nab Scar and
Wansfell. It will be pleasanter to return the same way back,
than to pass forward, as may be done by pedestrians, either
into Borrodale or Wythburn Head.
|
Dunmail Raise
|
|
|
The Swan inn stands on the high road, beyond the lake and
house in which Mr. De Quincy took up his residence. From
hence the road is a long and gradual ascent, mounting in
mazy serpentines to the Raise Gap; the steepest part of the
road is from Highbroad Rain, through the turnpike, to a long
dreary pass, through which the wind sweeps in piercing
blasts. On the left brawls along the Rothay or Raise Beck,
over which towers the naked Helm Crag. On the right of the
Raise Gap, is a stream that divides the counties of
Cumberland and Westmorland, and in wet weather presents a
number of fine falls.
|
|
|
|
|
|
gazetteer links
|
|
|
-- "Raise Gap" -- Dunmail Raise
|
|
|
-- "Easedale" -- Easedale
|
|
|
-- Raise Beck
|
|
|
-- Ambleside to Keswick
|
|
|
-- "Steel Bridge" -- Steel Bridge
|
|
|
-- "Swan Inn" -- Swan Hotel
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
next page |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
