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From what has been said about the carriage road to Wast
Water, it will be evident that the same ground must be gone
over from Keswick as from Ambleside, but in what direction
to the best advantage will not be easily discovered;
Coniston Water, Lowes Water, and the road from Coniston to
Broughton would induce the tourist to go south about, but
that part of the road which lies between Ambleside and
Keswick may, perhaps, throw the preponderance into the other
scale.
The rout, on foot or horseback, from Keswick to Wast Water,
is by the inn at Buttermere, Scale Force, (which leave on
the left) and over the mountains by Fluttering Tarn to
Ennerdale Water, Ennerdale Bridge, Calder Bridge and Abbey,
Gosforth, Nether Wastdale, and Wast Water; from which return
by Wastdale Head, Sty Head Tarn, Seathwaite, Rosthwaite,
Bowder Stone, Grange, Lowdore, and
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Barrow, to Keswick; and the traveller, though his guide
should propose to proceed through Borrowdale rather than
Buttermere, must take the latter way, because as the object
of this journey is to see Wast Water, he would, if he went
through Borrowdale, pass from the head of the lake to its
foot, which is not so desirable as the reverse.
But should the Scale Force road be objected to for horses,
the tour may be made by Scale Hill, Lowes Water, and
Lampleugh, meeting the road first spoken of at Ennerdale
Bridge.
Wast Water is four miles long, and about three quarters of a
mile over in the broadest part; on the Screes or eastern
side it is of a tolerably straight line, but the opposite
shores are irregular, and appear beautifully embayed when
seen from the higher grounds; the road is up the western
side of the lake, often on its margin,
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