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bases and sloping sides are covered with wood almost to
their aspiring tops. At Rosthwaite, the principal hamlet, is
a small inn. The vales of which Borrowdale is composed
diverge from this village, up which the tourist approaches
from Keswick to the north; Seatoller leading to Buttermere
to the west; Seathwaite and over the Stye Head to Wastdale
in a southerly direction; and Stonethwaite to the
south-east, which again separates into Langstreth, leading
over the Stake into Great Langdale, and Greenup leading into
Easedale, and thence to Grasmere.
A little up the road from the inn towards Stonethwaite is a
splendid view, the river forming the foreground, and Eagle
Crag the distance. The tourist should not fail to proceed to
the point where the grains of Greenup and Langstreth
separate, which he must do by crossing Stonethwaite Bridge.
This makes a picturesque subject, the village composing the
middle ground, and the Hay Stacks the distance; then ascend
a little way up the wooded rocks on the left, by which means
he will command a view of both at once, divided by the
towering precipices of Eagle Crag, having Bull Crag directly
in front. The mountains of this dale, clad with oaks and
ash, yews and thorns, almost to their summits, are the
loftiest and most beautiful in Borrowdale.
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