40 MOUNTAINS. 



Boulby Alum Works (680 feet). Danby Beacon, a little north of 

 the Esk (966 feet 0. S.), is one of the more conspicuous points; 

 and Eston Nab or Barnaby Moor, a detached hill near Guis- 

 borough, though only 784 feet high, is well worthy of climbing 

 for its very fine prospect, ancient camp, and modern quarries 

 and ironstone pits. 



South of the Esk the land is much higher, and is formed 

 upon an axis which passes, nearly east and west from the Old 

 Peak and Stow Brow, south of Robinhood's Bay, through Lil- 

 hoe Cross, Loose Hoe, Ralph Cross, and Burton Head to Wain- 

 stones and Cranimoor. The heights augment to the westward 

 as far as Burton Head, Old Peak Cliff being 605 feet, Stow 

 Brow 800 feet, Lilhoe Cross 1000 feet, Loose Hoe 1404 feet, 

 Farndale Head 1412 feet, and Burton Head 1485 feet. From 

 this point they decline westward to Wainstones 1300 feet, 

 Cranimoor 1423 feet, and Cold Moor 1314 feet. 



From this high axis many short glens lead down to the north 

 and join the Esk, and others, somewhat longer, direct their course 

 southward to the great basin of the Derwent, in the Vale of 

 Pickering. Thus the wide moorlands are split into many ro- 

 mantic dales, often edged with rocky borders, and somewhat 

 enriched with wood along the course of the 'beck/ Along the 

 ridges between the dales the heights successively diminish, and 

 all which pass southward are crossed by the upper oolitic rock, 

 which presents a terrace-like range of hills escarped to the north, 

 showing cliffs along every stream, and rising westward from 

 Scarborough Castle, 300 feet, to Hambleton End, 1300 feet. 

 The hill-ends of this range receive the name of ' Nabs/ From 

 Hambleton End southward the heights dimmish by Black Ham- 

 bleton 1246 feet, Limekiln House 1148 feet, Boltby Scar 1100 

 feet, Whitstone Cliff 1078 feet, Oldstead Bank 954 feet, Wass 

 Bank 900 feet, to Ampleforth Moor 800 feet. 



The small tract of oolitic hills south of the line of the valley 

 of Gilling has received in modern times the name of ' Howard- 

 ian ' Hills. Its main course is to the east-south-east, literally 



