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Page 162:-
The higher end of the lake is fourteen miles from Penrith, and
ten from Ambleside, of good turnpike road, save only at
Styboar-crag, where it is cut into the rock that awfully
overhangs it, and is too narrow.
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Ullswater to Ambleside
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Kirkstone Pass
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Above Goldrill-bridge, the vale bocomes (sic) narrow and poor,
the mountains steep, naked, and rocky. Much blue slate, of an
excellent kind, is excavated out of their bowels. The ascent from
the lake to the top of Kirkston is easy, and there are many
water-falls from the mountains on both sides. From the top of
Kirkston to Ambleside the descent is quick. Some remarkable
stones near the gorge of the pass are called Highcross.
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to Haweswater
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After what we have seen, the only lake that remains to be visited
in this tour is
HAWES-WATER.
This is a pleasant morning ride from Penrith; or it may be taken
in the way to Shap, or from Shap, and return to Kendal. There
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gazetteer links
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-- Hawes Water
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-- "Highcross" -- Kirk Stone
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-- Ambleside to Kirkstone Pass
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-- Kirkstone to Patterdale
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-- Patterdale to Penrith
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