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Page 33:-
SECOND TOUR.
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second tour
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Patterdale and Ambleside
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BY TROUTBECK TO KIRKSTONE PASS AND PATTERDALE, AND DESCENT
UPON AMBLESIDE.
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| BOWNESS to Kirkstone | 7 |
| 6 | Patterdale | 13 |
| 4 | Lyulph's Tower | 17 |
| 4 | Back to Patterdale | 21 |
| 10 | Ambleside | 31 |
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As the traveller will have other opportunities of observing
the six miles of mailroad between Bowness and Ambleside, he
may as well go round, and see Ullswater, on the day of his
removal. Sending his luggage on by the omnibus to one of the
three chief Ambleside inns, he will take a car for the day,
and go by Troutbeck to Patterdale.
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Troutbeck
High Street
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The country people will tell him, as he turns up to
Troutbeck at Cook's House, that he is going to see "the
handsomest view in these parts,- especially at the back-end
of the year." And wonderfully fine the views are, as the
road ascends, commanding the entire lake, and the whole
range of mountains from Coniston Old Man to Fairfield. The
singular valley of Troutbeck was once a wooded basin, where
the terrified Britons took refuge from the Romans, while the
latter were making their great road from Kendal to Penrith.
That road actually ran along the very ridge of the
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-- High Street
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-- Windermere to Kirkstone Pass
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-- Troutbeck
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