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Below High Force, the river runs with a swift current on a 

 rocky bed, and where it is crossed by Winch or Miner's Bridge, 

 makes a pleasing scene. High cliffs of greenstone run parallel 

 to the river several miles on the south-west side from the High 

 Force to Lorton, and then return for a mile parallel to the Lune. 

 Romaldkirk is the mother parish of Teesdale, and extends over 

 all the extreme north-west region of Yorkshire, and down the 

 Tees to Startforth near Barnard Castle. Thus all Upper Tees- 

 dale (on the Yorkshire side) and all Lunedale, with the several 

 smaller dales on Balder Beck, Grize Beck, and Deepdale, are in 

 this enormous parish. Beyond the usual amount of interest 

 which belongs to moorland waters with rocky channels and a 

 few craggy summits (as Goldsborough, Cragg, the Clent, &c.), 

 none of these dales have attractions for the artist. The lower 

 end of Baldersdale is finely wooded, and indeed all the lower 

 part of Teesdale by Cotherstone, Lartington and Egglestone, is 

 a rich and pleasing country. The reader will remark the name 

 of Baldersdale ; Woden Beck will also be pointed out to him 

 near it, as another indication of the Scandinavian element in our 

 northern population. The ruins of Egglestone Abbey (founded 

 1189) are a good subject for the artist. On the Durham side 

 of Tees, Middleton is worthy of a visit by the admirers of lead 

 mines and smelting houses ; and ' Barnard's Towers,' the Castle 

 of Balliol, will not be neglected by the artist or antiquary who 

 has any reverence for the genius of Scott. (See the Lithograph.) 



We have now reached a branch of the Tees which deserves 

 special notice, not only because the muse of Scott and the pencil 

 of Turner have been employed on its banks, but because of its 

 marking out the line of the Roman Iter from Cataractonium to 

 Luguvallium. The Greta rises by a few branches on the surface 

 of Stainmoor Forest and the northern slopes of Watercrag. Its 

 name goes with the stream which springs near the old British 

 Camp, or Rey Cross, and passes through the natural limestone, 

 at God's Bridge. Below this a farther supply joins the beck 

 and turns it to a small river, which flows by Bowes, remarkable 



