SDu n m a i l WRAYS.
T hIRC-WATHR.
give it a moil venerable-appearance; and not far from its foot is,
Rydal water,, about a mile long,, beautified with little ifles. .
Go through Rydal pafs, or,.in the dialed of the country, Rydal
haws, or gullet. Ride through Grafs-mere, a fertile vale with -a
lake clofed at the end by a noble pyramidal mountain.
On a high pafs between the hills,, obferve a large Carnedd called
Bunmail Wrays Jlonesi, colleiled in memory o f a defeat, A. D,
946. given to a petty king o f Cumberland, of that name, by Ed-
mund I. who-with the ufual barbarity of the times, put out the
eyes of his two fons, and gave his- country to Malcolm, king of;
Scotland, on condition he preferved.in peace the northern parts of
England.
The defcent from hence to the vale o f Kefivick, nine miles.
Near this place enter.
e u M m E R L A N-> D,
having on-the left the long extended front of Helvellin fells. Moft
o f the hills in thefe parts are fine iheep walks, fmooth and well;
turfed. The iheep,are fmall, but the mutton exquifitely tailed,,
being, feldom kiUed before it .is fix.orfeven years old. The wool
is coarfe, but manufactured into ordinary carpets and blankets,.
No gpats are kept here on, account of the. damage they would do
to the woods..
Arrive within fight of Thirl-water, a moil beautiful but narrow
lake, filling the bottom of a long dale for near four miles. From
an eminence near Bale-head., houie, have a pifturefque view over
great part of its extent. About the middle, the land for above
a .hundred1