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Page v-viii, contents:-

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CONTENTS.
  lakes
THE LAKES ... 1
Windermere ... 2
  Sketch of Mountains ... 7
Ullswater ... 8
Brother Water ... 10
  Sketch of Mountains ... 11
Coniston Water ... 12
Esthwaite Water ... 13
Grasmere Lake ... 13
Rydal Water ... 14
  Sketch of Mountains ... 15
Thirlmere ... 16
Derwent Lake ... 17
  Sketch of Mountains ... 21
Bassenthwaite Lake ... 22
Buttermere Lake ... 22
Crummock Lake ... 23
Lowes Water ... 23
  Sketch of Mountains ... 25
Ennerdale Lake ... 26
  Sketch of Mountains ... 27
Hawes Water ... 28
Wast Water ... 29
  Sketch of Mountains ... 31
  tarns
THE TARNS ... 32
Elterwater - Loughrigg Tarn - Little Langdale Tarn - Blea Tarn - Stickle Tarn - Codale Tarn - Easedale Tarn ... 32
Hays Water - Angle Tarn - Grisedale Tarn - Red Tarn - Keppel Cove Tarn ... 34
Small Water - Blea Water ... 35
Levers Water - Low Water - Gates Water - Blind Tarn - Beacon Tarn - Seathwaite Tarn ... 36
Kentmere Tarn - Skeggles Water ... 36
Blea Tarn - Watendleth Tarn - Angle Tarn - Sprinkling Tarn - Sty Head Tarn - Dock Tarn - Tarn of Leaves - Harrop Tarn ... 37
Scales Tarn - Bowscale Tarn - Over Water - Burtness Tarn - Floutern Tarn - Burnmoor Tarn - Devoke Water - Eel Tarn - Stony Tarn ... 38
  rivers
RIVERS - Derwent - Greta - Cocker - Ellen - Eamont - Lowther - Eden - Petterill - Caldew - Lune - Kent - Sprint - Mint - Brathay - Rothay - Leven - Crake - Duddon - Esk - Irt - Mite - Bleng - Lissa - Ehen - Calder ... 39
  waterfalls
WATERFALLS
Lowdore Cascade - Barrow Cascade ... 42
White Water Dash - Scale Force - Airey Force ... 43
Stock Gill Force - Rydal Waterfalls - Dungeon Gill - Skelwith Force ... 44
Colwith Force - Birker Force - Dalegarth Force - Taylor Gill - Sour Milk Gill ... 45
  mountains
MOUNTAINS ... 46
Skiddaw ... 48
Sketch of Skiddaw and Saddleback ... 49
Helvellyn ... 58
Sketch of Mountains from Helvellyn ... 63
Scawfell and Pikes ... 64
Saddleback ... 69
Carrock Fell ... 69
Bowfell ... 70
Gable ... 70
Pillar ... 70
Grasmoor ... 71
Grisedale Pike ... 71
Black Combe ... 72
Coniston Old Man ... 72
Fairfield ... 73
Langdale Pikes ... 74
High Street ... 74
Wansfell Pike ... 75
Witeless Pike ... 76
Loughrigg Fell ... 76
BEARINGS AND HEIGHTS OF MOUNTAINS ... 78
  rocks
CRAGS ... 80
  antiquities
ANTIQUITIES
Druidical Circles ... 81
King Arthur's Round Table - Mayburgh - Giant's Graves - Barnscar ... 82
Beacons - Hardknot Castle - Castles ... 83
Furness Abbey - Calder Abbey - Shap Abbey ... 83
  placenames
EXPLANATION OF TERMS ... 85
  visiting
SEASON FOR VISITING THE LAKES ... 89
  itineraries
GENERAL DIRECTIONS AND EXCURSIONS
Stages in the District ... 91
Lancaster ... 92
Lancaster to Ulverston and Furness Abbey ... 94
Ulverston ... 95
Ulverston to Coniston ... 96
Coniston to Ambleside ... 97
Milnthorp to Kendal ... 98
Kendal ... 98
Bowness ... 98
Sketch of Mountains seen from Bowness ... 99
Bowness to Esthwaite Water and Coniston ... 100
Low Wood Inn ... 101
Ambleside ... 102
Ambleside to Langdale ... 103
Ambleside to Loughrigg Fell, &c. ... 105
Ambleside to Ullswater ... 106
Ambleside to Eskdale and Wasdale ... 107
Ambleside to Keswick ... 109
Carlisle to Keswick ... 111
Penrith ... 112
Penrith to Ullswater ... 112
Pooley Bridge Inn ... 112
Sketch of Mountains from Pooley Bridge ... 113
Excursions to Hawes Water ... 114
Kendal to Hawes Water by Shap ... 116
Keswick ... 117
Round Derwent Lake ... 122
To Borrowdale by Watendleth ... 124
Ride to Buttermere ... 125
Drive to Scale Hill and Buttermere ... 128
Keswick to Wast Water and Calder Bridge ... 129
Return from Calder Bridge to Keswick ... 133
Drive round Bassenthwaite Lake ... 135
Keswick to Ullswater ... 136
Whitehaven to Cockermouth ... 137
Cockermouth to Lowes Water, &c. ... 137
  botany
BOTANICAL NOTICES ... 139
  geology
GEOLOGY OF THE DISTRICT ... 149
  meteorology
METEOROLOGY ... 165
  floating island
FLOATING ISLAND IN DERWENT LAKE ... 171
  black lead
BLACK-LEAD MINE IN BORROWDALE ... 175
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