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Bassenthwaite is perhaps the last of the lakes to be
visited, unless it be Hawes Water. Hawes Water is difficult
of access to the ordinary tourist: and Bassenthwaite verges
towards the flat country, which is not what the traveller
came to visit. It is amusing to observe how the residents in
the district become more sensible every year to the beauty
of the merely undulating country through which the mountains
sink into the plains: while strangers have hardly patience
to look at it, in their eagerness to find themselves under
the shadow of the great central fells. Bassenthwaite is one
of the outermost lakes; and it is therefore no more cared
for by the tourists in general than the foot of Coniston or
Windermere. Still, considering that Skiddaw overshadows its
eastern shore, it would seem worthy of some attention; and
the drive of eighteen miles round it is, in truth, a very
pleasant one.
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