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which resemble the ' asars ' of Scania the ' escars ' of Mayo 

 and in a less degree the ' moraine ' of glacial countries such as 

 the hills of Kelk and Brandsburton. Small affluents enter it 

 from the wolds which rise to the west, and drains come into it 

 from the lower grounds on the east, but it is still a small stream 

 where it passes Beverley to join the Humber. The Hull has no 

 pictorial interest, but its course is marked by monuments of man 

 which awaken sympathy and curiosity. 



It flows from the district where Ida 'flame-bearing' 

 landed to conquer Northumbria. At Driffield the mound is 

 raised over Anglo-Saxon dead; at Danesdale are the numerous 

 graves of their piratical foes ; and at Beverley was the shrine of 

 St. John, preceded by an earlier settlement marked by 'four 

 stones/ from which we infer that it was the British Pedwarllech 

 and Greek Petouaria, chief city of the Parisoi, as it still is of the 

 East Riding. From Pedwarllech we have Bevorlac, Beverley. 



To St. John of Beverley Athelstane offered the sword which 

 had waved in triumph at Brunanburgh, perhaps the greatest of 

 Anglo-Saxon victories. Here, in later times, we have Meaux 

 Abbey, in the isles of Holderness, the renewed and glorified 

 Minster of the 18th century, St. Mary's Church, which even in 

 Beverley is admirable, an ancient gateway, and a town full of 

 mediaeval memories. 



A few miles further in its course is the King's town upon- 

 Hull, which Edward I. planted; and which, after the sea had 

 destroyed Ravenspurn, soon rose to be the emporium of the 

 eastern coast. 



THE GYPSEYS. 



Of these variable and intermittent streams which appear on 

 the surface of the chalk valleys in Yorkshire, the principal, 

 rising at Wold Newton, runs by a short course to Burton 

 Fleming, Maiden Grain, Rudston, Boynton, and Bridlington 

 Quay. Another bursts forth with violence after wet seasons at 

 Kilham. The wolds of Yorkshire absorb so freely the rain 



