25 

 GEOLOGICAL EXCURSION. 



BY E. W. 

 ' {Continued from page G.) 



We were up betimes the next morning to ascend Inglebro. We had 

 over niglit a vague idea of ascending to see the sun rise, but in these 

 long days of July, it is of no use trying to anticipate that luminary, 

 he rose in red glory before we had been half an hour on our way; the 

 ascent is of course long— five miles continually up hill will always be a 

 stiflF walk, but from Clapham it is very easy — a lady of our party managed 

 it with very little fatigue; the ascent is over dry moors, with three suc- 

 cessive steep steps, and as many broad platforms. When the first step 

 was surmounted, we stood on the edge of the Lower Scar Limestone; 

 the mass of Inglebro stood in front of us, a broad moor rose gradually 

 to the foot of the next step, which contained the Yoredale Series, and 

 the Upper Scar Limestone, both very thin ; then came a second long plat- 

 form, the south end of which rose a little, forming a hill called Little 

 Inglebro. 



On the north end stood the oblong mound of Millstone Grit, which 

 formed the highest summit. On the north and east sides the descent is 

 abrupt to the Lower Limestone platform. On the west a thin belt of the 

 middle platform divides the descent. On the south, which is the accessible 

 side, the ascent is made from the summit of little Inglebro; the edges all 

 round the top are broken into cliffs, and enormous piles of worn rocks 

 lie on the lower and middle platforms, tumbled from the rugged sides of 

 the exposed summit, and on the two deep sides streaking the descent with 

 streams of stones. The top is oblong, about a mile in circumference, very 

 level and very dry; it is everywhere guarded at its edge by a rough stone 

 dyke of great thickness, the remains of a fortified camp held by some 

 of our oppressed or oppressing ancestors. 



The view is very extensive— to the north stretch the hills of Teesdale, 

 Swaledale, and Wensleydale, in confused groups. Whernside just opposite 

 shuts out the view to the north-west. A peep up the valley of the Lune 

 makes the gazer fancy the sea is there, (the vista stretches out as far,) 

 and this is really the case, if the right kind of day can be chosen, (an 

 evening before rain.) To the west the view is closed by Bolland Knots, 

 and the numerous wild swells which form Bolland Forest. To the south 

 the eye ranges over the beautiful valley of Craven, crossed far away by 

 Pendle Hill. To the south-west rise range beyond range the Fells which 

 hide in their deep valleys the head waters of the Aire, the Wharfe, and 

 the Nid. To the east the beautiful mass of Pennyghent springs up from 

 the valley at our feet; and to the north-west the view is closed by Carn 



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