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FIRST TOUR.

first tour
  Furness Abbey and Coniston
FROM BOWNESS, BY NEWBY BRIDGE AND ULVERSTONE TO FURNESS ABBEY, RETURNING BY CONISTON, HAWKSHEAD, AND THE FERRY.
MILES.MILES.
BOWNESS to Newby Bridge8
8Ulverstone16
7Furness23
8Foot of Coniston Water31
7New Inn38
4Hawkshead42
3The Ferry45
For the greater convenience of taking his pleasure on the water, the traveller will now shift his quarters to Bowness, where he will find himself, as we have said, comfortably accommodated at either Ullock's Royal Hotel or the Crown. Now is his time for visiting Furness Abbey. This should be the first of his tours, because it will lead him into the least mountainous parts of the district.
  bobbin mills
He will go down to Newby Bridge either by steamer, or by the road; which passes the grounds of Storrs, and cuts over hill and dale, and winds among the copses, till it crosses the bridge opposite the inn. Those copses have been valuable to the remotest known date, for charcoal, and they have become more so since the increase of manufactures has stimulated the demand for bobbins. There are bobbin-mills at Skelwith, at Amble-
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