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glens right through these hills, to the Vale of Eden, at Kirkby 

 Stephen, by Mallerstang, and the Vale of the Lancashire Lune, 

 by Garsdale. Embraced by these glens, and separated from 

 Hougill Fells by Rothersdale, is a singular group split into the 

 three distinct summits of Wild Boar Fell, 2327 feet ; Swarth 

 Fell, 2237 N.j and Bar Fell (or Bow Fell), 2226 N. The 

 former is in Westmoreland, the two latter in Yorkshire. These 

 bold and picturesque mountains are rarely traversed by tourists, 

 though they are very worthy of attention. Insulated from all 

 the other masses of land, they offer to the geologist many ex- 

 cellent sections through the millstone grit and Yoredale rocks, 

 and on their western slopes the line of the great Penine fault is 

 very distinct. Wild Boar Fell, perhaps the finest of the three, 

 in boldness of form and ruggedness of surface, may be crossed 

 with pleasure in fine weather (the author once crossed it in a 

 terrific storm), from Pen dragon Castle toward Sedbergh. 



WIDDALE FELL GROUP. Less deeply divided from its con- 

 generic hills by Garsdale, Dentdale, and Widdale (a branch of 

 Yoredale), is the branching group of which Widdale Fell Top 

 (composed of millstone grit) is the summit. It is 2205 feet 

 high according to Mr. Nixon, who calls it Knoutberry Hill. A 

 lower part of the hill, called Whaw Fell, or Woe Fell, is 1833 

 feet N., and to the long continuation westward, called Rysell, 

 Nixon gives an elevation of 1823 feet. The views from Wid- 

 dale Fell are varied, pleasing, and extensive, and it is within 

 a moderate distance of Hawes, with a difference of level of 

 1500 feet. 



DOD FELL GROUP. In the small rhomboidal area enclosed 

 between the two branches of Yoredale, called Widdale and Sim- 

 merdale, is a fine group of mountains, in which the limestone 

 element, so productive of beauty in psecipices and cascades, is 

 predominant, though, as in so many other cases, the highest 

 summit is formed of gritstone. This is the <Dod/ a name 

 which occurs again in one of the buttresses of Skiddaw ; its 

 height is 2189 N. North-east of it is Bear's Head, or Weather 



