90 RIVERS. 



dicate the usual burial-place of the Equites singulares, part of 

 the body-guard of the emperor : 



D.M. 



AYR MA 



CRINVS E 



EQ SING AVG . 



Mr. Copperthwaite has made known an inscription found at 

 Old Malton, which is believed to have been placed as an invoca- 

 tion of good fortune at the shop-front of a goldsmith. Mr. 

 Wright has given a figure and explanation of this unique monu- 

 ment*. The inscription is thus read : 



FELICITER SIT 

 GENIO LOqG:|:I 

 SERVVLE VTERE 

 FELIX TABERN 

 AM AVREFI 

 OlNAM . 



The fourth word is supposed to stand for loci. 



Before following the course of the Derwent below Malton, we 

 may pause to restore in imagination the ancient aspect of this 

 part of Yorkshire. The general features of its valleys and hills 

 were, no doubt, due to the action of sea-waves on its subsidence 

 below and re-elevation above the level of the sea. To this gene- 

 ral effect has been since added the surface influence of descending 

 rains, and all the agency of atmospheric vicissitudes. The Vale 

 of Pickering, originally a sea-valley in the strata, has been in great 

 measure filled up by deposits of two kinds and successive ages. 

 These may be seen on the cliffs which the modern sea-action has 

 made by cutting into the basis of this vale near Filey. First 

 upon the unequal floor of the strata is deposited detritus full of 

 fragments of far-transported stones, the glacial drift of modern 

 geologists. In hollows of this, which is a marine deposit, lie 

 sediments derived from fresh water, often containing shells of 



* ' The Celt, the Roman, and the Saxon,' p. 247. 



