5(1 GEOGRAPIDCAL DESCRIPTION OF CUMBERLAND.

Gable· is very hard and dark-coloured, with garnets embedded. THE PrrJ.AR, about three miles west of Gable, takes its name from a pro­ jecting rock on its north side, which was considered inaccessible until 1826, when an adventurous shepherd reached its summit. This mountain presents a rocky front of the most rugged and grand description. Wordsworth thus alludes to this rock in his poem of "The Brothers":- "You see yon precipice ; it almost looks Like some vast building made of many crags ; And in the midst is one particular rock That rises like a column from the vale, Whence by our shepherds it is called the ." The ascent of the Pillar is fraught not only with toil, but also with danger, a.nd should be attempted only by expert mountaineers. The necessity of this caution was fatally illustrated on Good Friday of the present year (1883), when a young man from Whitehaven, out for a day's ramble, in trying to reach the summit slipped his footing, a.nd was killed by the fall. GRAf?MOOR i!5 three and a half miles north of , on the eastern side of Crummock. It is a bold rocky eminence, terminated by a cireular summit, and affords a bird's-eye view of Buttermere, Crurnmock, and Loweswater lakes, with their adjacent mountains, and of the coast near Whitehaven, Egremont, &c. ., about two mile& north from Grasmoor, and sixteen miles west by south of Keswick, commands a fine view of the vale of Keswick, and a considerable part of Cumberland, with the sea, the. Isle of Man, and the Scotch mountains. About two miles east-south-east is , which has the eminences known as Cat ·Bells and Castle: Crag to the south ; while to the north, and near the head of. Bassenthwaite, is Lord's Seat. · SxmnAw, the fomth in altitude of our English mountains, is situated to the east of Bassenthwaite Lake. It commands a prospect · of the greater part of Cumberland ; all the coast from St. Bees Head to Solway Firth, with the several bays and promontOl'ies, the. Isle of Man, and a considerable. portion of the southern part of Scotland. The summit of , in Yorkshire, is seen over the range uf hills which bound the hea~ of Ullswater ; and a glimpse of the sea near Lancaster may be obtained through the gap at Dunmail Raise. The only lakes seen are Derwent and Bassenthwaite, and only one of these can be viewed from the s-ummit. " A view of the country, from at least one of the highest moun­ tains with which this county abounds, is considered as forming part of the tour by those who can muster strength and resolution for the undertaking ; and for this purpose is on several accounts generally selected. It is nearest to the station at Keswick, most easy of access {as ladies may ride on horseback to the very summit), and, stanrung in some measure detached, the view, especially to the north