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Page 67:-

PART II.


Keswick area
KESWICK AND ITS ENVIRONS.

MILESMILES
AMBLESIDE to Grasmere4
Dunmail Raise
Nag's Head
St. John's Vale (mail road)10
Castlerigg14¾
Keswick16
Some call Ambleside the head quarters of the lake district, and others Keswick. It is not necessary to settle this point of precedence here. having treated of Ambleside first, because the tourist arrived there first, Keswick claims the next notice.
  Swan Inn
  Sir Walter Scott

The road from Ambleside to Keswick has already fallen under our observation as far as Grasmere, and its conspicuous white inn, the Swan. That inn had the honour of providing Scott with a daily draught of something good, when he was, in his early days, the guest of Wordsworth and his sister at Grasmere,- their board being conscientiously humble, as they used to tell, to a degree, which did not suit the taste of their
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