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Page 167:-
of Derwent Bay, Derwent Bank, and Derwent Lodge. From the
neighbouring heights may be viewed the lakes of Derwent
Water and Bassenthwaite, with all the finely-wooded and
fertile country reaching from Swinside to Skiddaw.
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Keswick to Borrowdale
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XI. KESWICK TO BORRODALE, RETURNING BY
WATENDLATH.- 14 M.
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| Miles. | KESWICK TO | Miles. |
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| 3 | Lodore Inn | 3 |
| 2 | Bowder Stone | 5 |
| 1 | Rossthwaite | 6 |
| 2 | Watendlath | 8 |
| 3 | Ashness | 11 |
| 3 | Keswick | 14 |
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Lodore Hotel
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Lodore Inn.- Proceeding forward, as in the last
route, the tourist must keep the river on his right hand.
The pass presents grand and savage scenery, the road in many
places making such abrupt windings as to appear occasionally
blocked up. The river runs in a deep channel, with rocky
banks, considerably below the road, and the mountains rise
on either hand in rugged and awful precipices. Castle Crag
rises up into a bold cone, crested with wood, almost in the
middle of the pass. The Romans, with military precision,
fortified this eminence.
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Bowder Stone
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BOWDER STONE is a rock of great dimensions, which has
probably fallen at some far-distant period from the crags
above. The stone is 62 feet long, and 36 feet high, its
circumference is 89 feet, and it weighs 1971 tons. from this
point a fine view of Borrodale is obtained. The village of
Rossthwaite lies in front, overhung as it were by Glaramara
and Eagle Crag.
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-- "Bowder Stone" -- Bowder Stone
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-- "Portinscale" -- Portinscale
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-- Keswick to Borrowdale
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