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Title: A complete guide to the English lakes,
Year: 1855 (1850s)
Authors: Martineau, Harriet, 1802-1876
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: Windermere: : J. Garnett. London: : Whittaker and Co.
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
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only swept away the whole work, but scooped outthe entire line for its own channel. The village ofBrackenthwaite, which stood directly in its course, wassaved by being built on a stone platform, — a circum-stance unknown to the inhabitants till they now sawthemselves left safe on a promontory, while the softsoil was swept away from beside their very doors,leaving a chasm where the flood had been turned asideby the resistance of their rock. The end of the matterwas, that the flood poured into the Cocker, which roseso as to lay the whole south-western plain under waterfor a considerable time. On leaving Buttermere, and passing the very smallchapel (which yet is quite big compared with theformer one on the same site) the road up ButtermereHaws to Newlands is seen ascending to the left. TheLake of Buttermere is only a mile and a-quarter inlength, and a little more than half-a-mile in breadth.The mountains which enclose it have been alreadynamed (p. 84.) The torrent that will be observed
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■a en 3 O £o HONISTER CRAG. 133 flowing down the steep into the lake is called (as othersin the district are) Sour milk Ghyll; and it issues fromBleaberry, or Burtness Tarn, on the side of Bed Pike.The pretty domain near the margin of the lake isHasness (General Bensons.) Then comes Gatesgarth,— the farmstead whence the road to Scarf Gap is taken,by which, as we have told, London gentlemen andKendal ladies have run into such extreme danger.From Gatesgarth begins one of the wildest bits of roadin the district. It climbs Buttermere Yale, by anascent at first gradual, and latterly extremely steep,to the base of Honister Crag. It is a vast stonyvalley, where sheep and their folds, and a quarry manshut here and there, are the only signs of civilization.There are no bridges over the stream (the infantCocker), which must be crossed many times ; andwhere there are no stepping-stones, the pedestrianmust wade. Every body walks up the last reachesof the ascent, ■— so steep and stony is

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