OUSE. NIDD. 69 



Among the inscriptions and sculptures found at and near 

 Aldborough, we may signalize the cylindrical milliary stone 

 found in 1776 at Duel or Devil's Cross (on the Roman road to 

 York), though its true import is not well ascertained. The stone 

 is 7 feet in height. 



IMP . C 



J3S C X/T 



S3 IVS 



SOCEC 



TR A. PO 



FELICr 



AVG 



V C 



s 



t 



A plain altar and a mural statue of Mercury are figured by 

 Gough. 



THE OUSE. 



The SWALE and URE meet on equal terms, and unite to 

 form the Ouse, the greatest stream of Yorkshire ; for it seems 

 absurd to trace the name of this river to the insignificant rill 

 which springs at Ouseburn. Hither formerly flowed the tide, 

 now effectually stopped at Linton Lock, even if it should pass 

 over the dam at Naburn. The Ouse flows south-eastward to 

 Nun-Monkton, where, close to the singular and beautiful church, 

 it receives the Nidd from Knaresborough and Pateley Bridge. 



THE NIDD. 



NIDDERDALE* (Nithersdale on some Maps) gathers itself by 

 short steep slopes from the moorlands of Great and Little 



* If not the ' lower dale' (from the German Nieder-thal), perhaps the 

 ' dale of the Nith-water,' from British dour, water, and Nedd, turning or 

 whirling). So Nithsdale in Scotland and Neath (the Roman Nidum in S. 

 Wales). 



