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Page 164:-
chosen, romantic views may be obtained of this most lovely
vale and its green-enamelled lake, with the fine old church
and the white-washed houses shining out from amidst their
wood-girt enclosures. The Swan Inn stands by the
road-side, and a little distant on the left, near the
church, is the Red Lion. Both these inns will afford
sufficient accommodation for a tourist, disposed to journey
into the hidden beauties of this and its auxiliary vale of
Easedale. On the left, in passing up this valley, the
traveller will observe a lofty conical hill; it is called
Helm Crag. The summit is composed of vast rocks, in whose
forms fancy has discovered the resemblance of a lion and a
lamb.
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Dunmail Raise
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DUNMAIL RAISE is a large cairn, now marking the boundary
line between Westmorland and Cumberland: tradition ascribes
it to the memory of a British king of that name, who was
here defeated and slain in battle by Edmund I. of England. A
little beyond this dreary and wind-swept pass, there is a
view, forward, of the cold and forbidding vale and water of
Wythburn, bounded by the sloping sides of Helvellyn and Seat
Sandal on the right, and by the Borrodale fells on the left,
with Skiddaw closing in the view to the north.
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Wythburn
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Wythburn Chapel.- Opposite to this is the Horse
Head Inn, the half-way house between Ambleside and
Keswick. A guide may be obtained here for ascending
Helvellyn, which is most accessible hence.
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Thirlmere
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Wythburn Water, known also as Thirlmere or Leathes
Water, is a narrow and deep lake, divided
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-- Dunmail Raise Stones
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-- "Grasmere" -- (Grasmere, Lakes)
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-- "Helm Crag" -- Helm Crag
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-- "Horse Head Inn" -- Nag's Head Inn
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-- "Leathes Water" -- Thirlmere
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