1861.] REVIEW. 155 



The Preston Chronicle for March \7th, July \Mh, and August 



Uth, 1860. 



Newspapers, whether of daily or weekly appearance, notice 

 periodicals of all sorts, both monthlies and quarterlies ; therefore 

 the subject of this article, not being uncommon, requires no 

 apology. 



' Rambles by the Kibble ' is the title of a series of very amu- 

 sing and instructive articles on the antiquities, scenery, natural 

 and civil history of the many interesting localities, towns, vil- 

 lages, churches, monastic remains, manorial residences, etc. etc., 

 which give a more than ordinary interest to one of the prettiest 

 streams of Craven, celebrated for its dales, scars, rivulets, and 

 streamlets. 



" Of the many rivers that flow along the valleys of merrie England, 

 there are few that, in the richness of antiqnarian and historical associa- 

 tions, the loveliness of the district it waters, or the nnmber of objects of 

 beauty and interest along its course, exceed our own Ribble. In the days 

 of yore the Eoman masters of Britain colonized its banks and erected 

 their stations, their homes, their temples, and their altars near its waters. 

 The Danes, Saxons, and Normans have left traces of their ascendency in 

 the names of our to^\nis, villages, and then* inhabitants." 



Our pages are not quite appropriate for antiquarian or histo- 

 rical lore, and even the pictorial is not always relished by the 

 strictly scientific simplers, yet a sprinkling of something readable, 

 interspersed here and there among the clumsy lumbering Latini- 

 ties of nomenclature and description, is a relief to the reader : 

 it is like a bit of open green common to a weary pedestrian who 

 has trudged long on the dusty highway, with a brick wall or 

 closely-cropped thorn-hedge on his right hand and on his left. 



The following plants were collected during an autumn ramble 

 in the Fylde, between Lytham and the lighthouse, near the very 

 mouth of the Ribble, and not far from Preston. We should like 

 to know the distance, in case we should follow the track of our 

 Preston brethren. 



The first-mentioned plant is common in Craven, and probably 

 equally so in North Lancashire ; it is one of the rarest of British 



