William Green's Sixty Small Prints, page 21

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	page 21:- No.39. CRUMMOCK WATER AND BUTTERMERE. The horse-road to the Inn at Buttermere is eight miles and a half from Keswick, through the vale of Newlands; but the carriage-road is part of the way on the Cockermouth road, over Whinlatter, and through a part of the vale of Lorton, by Crummock Water to the Inn at Buttermere, which is somewhat more than fourteen miles. The Inn at Scale Hill (which is about half a mile from the outlet of Crummock Water and eleven miles from Keswick), and the Inn at Buttermere, are both of them excellent stationary places from which to see Buttermere, Crummock Water, Lows Water, and Ennerdale Water. The Inn at Buttermere lies at about an equal distance from the two lakes of Buttermere and Crummock; and the lofty mountains round the valley rise in sublime grandeur. Honister Crag, at the Borrowdale end of the valley, is a steep high rock. The four conical-topped mountains, High Pike, High Steel, High Crag, and Red Pike, are on the western side of the lake of Buttermere, and Robinson on the eastern. The river connecting Buttermere and Crummock Waters runs at the feet of the western mountains, and is about half a mile long: the Inn is at the bottom of the Keswick road, on the eastern side of the vale; and the intermediate grounds are of sweet pasturage, with woods elegantly distributed over it. Melbreak skirts the western, and Rannerdale Knott, Grasmire, and Whiteside, the eastern side of Crummock Water. This view of the two lakes is taken on the side of Melbreak, about two or three hundred yards above a little rocky promontory called Ling Crag. The fertile bottom separating Crummock Water and Buttermere is here a charming feature, and is finely contrasted by the mountains: the castle-like elevation in the distance is Honister Crag.
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