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and pastoral, on the side of Langdale entirely rocky. The Stake
exhibits a miniature of very bad Alpine road, across a mountain,
just not perpendicular, and about five miles over. The road makes
many traverses so close, that at every flexture it seems almost
to return into itself, and such as are advancing in different
traverses, appear to go different ways. In descending the Stake,
on the Langdale side, a cataract accompanies you on the left,
with all the horrors of a precipice. Langdale-pike, called
Pike-a-Stickle, and Steel-pike, is an accessible pyramidal rock,
and commands the whole. Here nature seems to have discharged all
her useless load of matter and rock, when form was first
impressed on chaos. Pavey-ark is a hanging rock 600 feet in
height, and under it is Stickle-tarn, a large bason of water,
formed in the bosom of the rock, and which pours down in a
cataract at Mill-beck. Below this, White-gill-crag opens to the
centre, a dreadful yawning fissure. Beyond Langdale chapel the
vale becomes more pleasing, and the road is good to Ambleside or
Hawkshead, by Scalewith-bridge.
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