It may be nearly two miles from Hawkshead, a distance of which an active eager school-boy would think nothing.

The 'blasted hawthorn' and the 'naked wall' are probably things of the past as much as the 'single sheep.'" Doubtless this may be the spot,--a green, rocky knoll with a steep face to the north, where a quarry is wrought, and with a plantation to the east.

It commands a view of both roads.

The other possible place is a crag, not a quarter of a mile from Outgate, a little to the right of the place where the two roads divide.

A low wall runs up across it to the top, dividing a plantation of oak, hazel, and ash, from the firs that crown the summit.