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An excursion through Borrowdale to Buttermere may be made on
horseback, taking the road as before described as far as Bowder
Stone: a mile beyond which, at Rosthwaite, is a small
public-house. A little further, a road on the left leads by
Stonethwaite, over the steep mountain pass called the Stake, to
Langdale. Tourists have sometimes been advised, by this track to
connect Borrowdale with Langdale, in one excursion; but the
better way is to explore Langdale from Ambleside, and Borrowdale
from Keswick.
At Seatoller, about eight miles from Keswick, a road on the left
leads to the black-lead mine, and to Wast Water; and here the
Buttermere road, turning to the right, ascends, by the side of a
stream broken into pretty waterfalls, up a steep hill; from which
there are some fine retrospective views of the upper parts of
Borrowdale; and Helvellyn soon begins to shew his head over the
mountains of Watendleth. In passing the hause, (which rises 800
feet above the level of Derwent Lake,) Honister Crag in majestic
grandeur is presented to the view;
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