From Hawkshead to the ferry-house on Windermere, the road either on the eastern or the western side of the lake passes over hilly grounds through the villages of Sawrey; the sight of Windermere from this road is very fine all the way down the hill to the flat, and on the margin of the lake to the ferry-house it has peculiar

eharms.

Belle-mont is finely situate about a mile north of Esthwaite Water, of which lake it commands a charming view, having Gummers How for its remote distance. Belle-mont was built by the Rev. Reginald Braithwaite, about forty years ago, being scarcely completed when the writer was making the survey of Lancashire; it was sold by the Rev. Gawen Braithwaite, son of the above Mr. Braithwaite, to Ward, Esq., of Liverpool.

A short distance from Belle-mont is Fieldhead, the property and Lancashire residence of James Lockart, Esq.

Near Hawkshead, on a bold eminence, and commanding a fine view of the country north, east, and south-east, stands Keen Ground, the seat of John Rigby, Esq.

Blelham tarn is a little lake two miles northeast of Hawkshead, and the way to it is by Colthouse. Blelham tarn has some good hedge-row trees on its south-west, but no striking features near its margin, but the grand mountains of Rydal and Ambleside swell finely over it; it is

connected with Windermere by a stream passing by Low Wray.

At Colthouse, on his property, resides Matthew Hodgson, Esq., formerly much esteemed as a medical practitioner in Hawkshead; and at the same place William Taylor, Esq.

From Hawkshead to Ambleside it is five miles, over an uneven and not very interesting road; its aspect is on the Rydal, Ambleside, and Troutbeck mountains, which is the best line of vision. About three miles from Hawshead a road deviates on the right, which leads by Blelham tarn and High Wray to the ferry-house, and a little nearer Ambleside that on the left to Coniston. From the New Inn at that place to Ambleside, the road as before mentioned is about a mile and a quarter on the Hawkshead road; there it turns on the left to Borwick Ground, a good family house, built by Matthew Harrison, Esq., and till lately inhabited by George Vernon, Esq., from which place, and for a considerable distance on the descent of the road to the flag quarry, there is a fine view of the Rydal and Ambleside mountains. The flag quarry is near the junction of the roads from Coniston, Hawkshead, and Ambleside, to which latter place the road is by the Pull to Brathay Bridge, four miles from Hawkshead-here the scenery improves, and is in beautiful variety all the way to Ambleside.

The writer, like Mr. West, commenced his tour to the lakes from Lancaster, by crossing

the sands to Ulverston, and recommended it not only on account of its diversity, but because of its being the best approach to Furness Abbey ; but, as the sands to some persons are objects of terror, a circuitous excursion to the Abbey may be made from Ambleside, which cannot fail of exciting by its change of scenery, a powerful interest in such as shall be fortunate in performing it in favourable weather.

This is simply to pass from Ambleside by the eastern side of Windermere to the Abbey, and return on the eastern side of Coniston Water.

From Ambleside to Newby Bridge by Bowness, fourteen miles; and from thence by Backbarrow, Bouth, and Penny Bridge, ten miles more. From Ulverston by Dalton it is seven miles to Furness Abbey, making the distance from Ambleside by Windermere thirty-one miles.

From the Abbey to Ulverston seven miles, and from Ulverston to Ambleside by Coniston Water twenty-two miles, a distance of twentynine miles.

Bowness is six miles from Ambleside, to which place should the traveller wish to commence his excursion by water, he may send his carriage, and meet it there from the boat; if the conveyance is an open carriage, the country will be seen to great advantage from it on the road from Bowness to Newby Bridge, which lies at the foot of the lake; the road from Newby

Bridge by Backbarrow and Bouth to Penny. Bridge is tolerably pleasant, but less so than from Penny Bridge to Ulverston.

When the party has returned from the Abbey to Ulverston, by way of variety he may travel to Lowick Bridge along the road described by Mr. West, of which in its proper place a quotation has been given. From the separation of the roads near the head of the lake, he may either go direct to Ambleside by Borwick Ground, or turn on the left, for the sake of an aquatic excursion, to the New Inn.

But should the traveller wish to steer a middle course between the sands and Ambleside, he may do it by proceeding from Lancaster along the Kendal road as far as Burton, eleven miles, where, instead of passing on to Kendal, he must leave that road for Millthorpe, four miles more, or fifteen miles from Laucaster, Levens Hall seventeen miles, Witherslack twenty-one miles, Newton (enter Lancashire) twenty-five miles, Newby Bridge twenty-eight miles, Ulverston, by Backbarrow, Booth, and Penny Bridge, thir ty-eight miles.

The above pleasant deviation from the public road will be exceedingly grateful to persons

* Bouth was the native place of the late Mr. Michael Taylor, the celebrated calculator for the Board of Longitude, who has perpetuated his name in the mathematical world by his correct and comprehensive tables of logarithms, signs, tangents, &c.

travelling with their own horses, or on foot from Millthorpe. But there may be some difficulty in procuring post horses.

A good part of the way from Lancaster to Burton is cheered with fine prospects of the sea, and the mountains of Lancashire and Westmorland.

But an earlier, and perhaps still more interesting, deviation from the public road, may be made by leaving it five and a half miles from Lancaster. This road is through Warton and under Warton crag, a bold elevation, and highly interesting to the botanist. "On its arched summit are the vestiges of a square encampment, and the ruins of a beacon." Warton crag was one of Mr. Yates's primary stations for his survey of Lancashire, and from this place the writer angled to all the surrounding country; there is a fine view from it, which perhaps for its variety of sea and land prospect, is rarely equalled. From Warton the road passes through the villages of Yealand Conyers, Yealand Redman, and Yealand Storrs. On the left of these villages stands Leighton Hall, encompassed by local beauties, and many favourable points from which to view the northern mountains, Leighton Hall is a splendid mansion, and was the seat of the late Alexander Worswick, Esq., under

* The new intended road from Carnforth by Levens over the mosses, and under Whitbarrow scar, will, when completed, render this part of the tour to Ulverston highly interesting.