button to main menu  Description of Sixty Studies, pp.76-77
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page 76:-
from Keswick, and tourists pass through Grange in their progress round the lake.

  plate 40
  road, Borrowdale and Buttermere
No. 40.


ROAD BETWEEN GRANGE AND BOWDER STONE.

This part of the road from Keswick to Bowder Stone, is about a quarter of a mile from the bridge; the distance is a part of Grange Fell.

  plate 41
  Borrowdale
No. 41.


BORROWDALE NEAR BOWDER STONE.

Bowder Stone is two or three hundred yards nearer Rosthwaite than the place from which this view is taken; but, like the village of Rosthwaite, it cannot be seen from this station, being hid from the eye by the rocky foreground on the left.
Rosthwaite, which is six miles from
page 77:-
Keswick, is the centre of a three grained valley (as it is termed in the north), and the roads to Rosthwaite from Langdale and Wastdale run through two of these grains on the banks of streams, which, uniting below the village, form the river Derwent; the Derwent, winding through the rocky channel of the third grain, empties itself into the lake a mile below Grange.
Borrowdale, from the summit of a green hill near Rosthwaite, exhibits an extraordinary mixture of sublimity and beauty; the surrounding mountains being high, finely formed, and luxuriantly dressed in wood, from amongst which rocks often appearing, give to the whole an additional interest.
In the middle distance of the view before us, on the right, rises from the river Derwent, Castle Crag, but here we do not see its summit; Rosthwaite Pike and Glenamatara, majestically
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