1 7 s Witty. . I Naturalist on the Yorkshire Moors, [vomhcxii 



to allow a person on horseback to traverse them without being 

 seen by persons on the table-land. When it is borne in mind 

 that all these works were executed during the stone age, that 

 probably the tools used were made of reindeer horns, and that 

 all the soil and stones was removed in skins or willow baskets, 

 this work of the ancient inhabitants of Yorkshire stands out as 

 one of the most marvellous known to present-day investigators. 



Standing stones, singly and in circles, are often met with. 

 The names of places often indicate some great struggle, such as 

 Bloody Beck, which is said to perpetuate a great slaughter either 

 of or by the Danes. 



On a portion of the ordnance map which covers about a 

 square mile of untouched country over sixty tumuli are shown, 

 while in another district seventy-seven can be counted in a !< \\ 

 hundred square yards. Some hundreds of bodies, presumably 

 of persons of distinction at the time, must have been laid to rest 

 in that neighbourhood. 



The making of flint implements must have been carried on 

 extensively in some places, such as at Scamridge Dyke, where, 

 during a walk through a ploughed field one can pick up hand- 

 fuls of flint flakes. These were chipped from stones which musl 

 have been brought from the cliffs on the coast, many miles 

 distant. 



I he late Mr. Joshua Rowntree, M.I)., and Mi. T. Sheppard, of 

 the Hull Museum, devoted a great deal of time to the investiga- 

 tion of the prehistoric remains of Yorkshire, and some of their 

 conclusions had appeared in various scientific publications, while 

 William Smith, the father of geology, and Professor Philips had 

 spent a great deal of time in their early days in investigating 

 the geologv of the north-east coast, and so made that pari i I 

 Yorkshire famous in the world of science. 



th< prehistoric evidences the moors offer a variety of 

 insed and planl life interesting to the naturalist. Some rare 

 plants grow in the neighbourhood of Scarborough one, the May 

 Lily, ConvaUaria majali . was only to be found wild in the whole 

 oi Great Britain in the woods nol Eat from the town. Several 

 ,,i orchids could be collected aboul Broxa, while the 

 iophorum), a i yperaceous plant, and the heathei 

 were features <i the moorlands. Foxgloves grew in hundreds 

 in II ds. 



Numerou bird >, butterflies, and moths were taken during the 

 holiday. ( »t the latter, the Emperoi Moth (Saturnia), one of the 

 ! itish ninth-, i fairly i ommon. 



. ijx r, the only poisom ound in En [land, may 



■ mi* be me1 with in the disti i I 



[A large number of cm (lien! lantern slid i illti trating the 

 many subjects dealt with wen exhibited, including some one 



