Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-05-24
BEAUTIFUL SCENERY
OF the Lake District of England.
Grasmere With the Oldest.
ENGLAND'S QUAINT CHURCH.
Rushing Down Craggy Declivities Into Val
Ieys Odorous with FIowery Perfumes.
The Difficulties Under Which
Travellers Labor.
THE CONVENTIONAL TRIP.

Special to the Gazette.
WINDERMERE, Eng, May 12,-The con-
ventiomal trip taken through the lake dis
trict is either after arrival by rail at its
southern headquarters, WinGormere. by
coach north through the heart of the region
10 keswick, or on arrival by rail al Hes
wick, over the same grand highway by
coach south to Nindermere. Thus tourists,
and particularly American tourists, who
wish to make the best use OF their hours.
are enabled TO secure very good general
idea of the district, and certainly look upon
that portion richest in associative interest
while viewing It's finest lakes. loveliest
wales and Hottest mountainS-by an eXpen-
diture of but one days time. An old tray
eler's word for it, seldom in a lifetime can
a day be so eXaltingly filled.
At Keswick or Windernere you have
daily the choice OF a score of fOur-in-hand
coaches. Some are Of the old English and
Concord patterns, but most are built high in
air, open. seating at least twenty fares; are
wonderfully constructed for strength and
lightness give delightful sense of breezy
altitude to passengers: and furnish III their
cavernous bodies vast stOreroOm for par
GELS and luggage. Most of these coaches
are provided with guards with musical
horns and rosy noses, with taciturn drivers,
who loiter about the stables of the nobility
III winter, and exist in defiant attitude OF
protest against QueS tons in summer, and
with the handsomest coach horses to be
found in all England You can leave Win
dermere or Keswick, in either direction. at
any hour of the day between : and }, and
the ride of twenty-one miles, through sew
eral of the deepest valleys and over two OF
the highest passes of the region, IS usually
accomplished in about five hours.
YOU ARE AT KESWICK.
If YOU have booked at least three days
in advance, have paid for two fares besides
toll tod
with stipendary notifications the driver
and guard as to the most favorable meas
ures for viewing the region. YOU can secure
your seat on the box Of the most popular
going out coach. 1t 9 in the morning. the
envy and glareS of the remainder OF the
fares" whom you find represent almost
every civilized nationality, Americans and
Germans predominating. If YOU ask cues
tons YOU will also secure the largest num-
Der of wide-winged ''out-and-outers" with
which your credence was ever assalled.
Your own knowledge of the literature and
topography of the Lake region is your sole
amulet against these. But YOUR coach IS
away with all the shouting, rafting and
footing necessary TO remind you that at last
you are the proud possessor, with its other
monarchs. the guard and the driver, OF the
box of & genuine British institution. The
gentle thrill which accompanies this refec-
ion has barely subsidized when you nave
passed beautiful Greta bridge, and with
sudden turn TO the right begin the long as
cent of Castle Rigg-',the most windin'
one for 'osses O the stretch the
driver remarks in the single truthful
statement you will receive all the way to
Windermere But in this long. slow climb
Won pass Chestnut Hill. a quaint little,
crooked roof house, with its historic syca-
more, elm and cherry tree, where Shelly
brought mis- schoolgirl bride and where
they chased each other like happy children
about the flower beds, until the stern Cum
brian landlord chased them both away As
the coach is halted at the top of Castle Rigg,
1000 feet above Keswick. grand and beauti
full indeed is that scene behind The entire
vale of Derwent is spread TO view. Keswick
gray and snug is half hidden its bosom. To
the west CLEANS the upper reaches OF Der
wentwater with the crags of Grassmoor be-