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is only about 700 feet. The evening or the morning lights, or 

 rather shadows, always desirable in landscape, are productive of 

 fine effects on the broad mountains round the head of the Ure. 



The streams which come down from Shunnor Fell and Lovely 

 Seat on the north make beautiful falls, at Cotter Force and 

 Hardraw Force. The former is a very pleasing waterfall, inter- 

 rupted by ledges of limestone rock, richly shaded and relieved 

 by free and natural foliage : the latter, a free leap of 99 feet, 

 which, when much water flows, fills the large basin of rocks with 

 sheets of vapour ; sometimes iris-tinted, and always very effective 

 in composition. Hardly anything can be more unlike in a 

 pictorial point of view than this noble fall in a dry season, as com- 

 pared with its appearance after a day's heavy rain. The glen is 

 very short, and the water soon collects to a formidable torrent, 

 where not long before an easy step might pass the stream. In 

 all conditions of the water, the deep, narrow and winding glen 

 through which the beck flows from the cascade is of great beauty, 

 and specially interesting to the geologist, who, seeing this little 

 dell in the process of further extension into the heart of the 

 mountain, may be encouraged to estimate the length of the 

 period necessary for such a stream to fashion such a ravine. Let 

 him do so when a summer evening is spreading broad and solemn 

 shadows over Wensleydale. 



South of Hawes is another interesting waterfall, Gale Force, 

 over limestone, resting on dark shale remarkably full of fossils. 



From Hawes downward to Bainbridge (four miles), the Ure 

 receives only small feeders ; but now a considerable rivulet enters 

 on the south side, and brings the overflow of the only lake in 

 this part of Yorkshire, Simmer Water. This name appears to 

 contain a reduplication of one meaning See and Meer both 

 signifying Lake. Having once seen this water under the in- 

 fluence of a heavy thunder-storm on the lofty range which bounds 

 the horizon to the south, and seen the same region covered by 

 snows, I can speak of its pictorial effect more favourably than 

 most travellers. There are small forces on the side streams. 



