Threlkeld

Saw Greystock town and castle to the right, which lie about three miles from Ullswater over the fells.

Passed through Penruddock and Threlkeld at the foot of Saddleback, whose furrowed sides were gilt by the noonday sun, whilst its brow appeared of a sad purple from the shadow of the clouds as they sailed slowly by it.

The broad and green valley of Gardies and Low Side, with a swift stream glittering among the cottages and meadows, lay to the left, and the much finer but narrower valley of St. John's opening into it.

Hilltop, the large though low mansion of the Gaskarths, now a farmhouse, seated on an eminence among woods under a steep fell, was what appeared the most conspicuous, and beside it, a great rock like some ancient tower nodding to its fall.