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being covered with foliage, have a reviving effect. 

 The road from Helmsley to Scarborough runs 

 through some of these towns, and affords the trav- 



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eller the most enchanting scenery. To see hills 

 on the left, covered with trees, from which the birds 

 pour forth their melodious harmony ; and on the 

 right a well cultivated country interspersed with 

 hills, with hedge rows intersecting each other ; form 

 a pleasing variety. While you are thus environed 

 with rural scenery, thegeniusof invention may hov- 

 er over your head, expand the mind, and create 

 inexpressible sensations. 



From Kirkby- Moors ide, you pass on to the vil- 

 lages of Sinnington, Wrelton, Aislaby, (the seat 

 of the Rev. T. Hayes,) Middleton, and then 

 to the market town of Pickering ; from thence to 

 the village of Thornton, (the seat of Richard Hill, 

 Esq.,) then through the villages of Wilton, Allers- 

 ton, and Ebberston, where there is a handsome 

 villa of the Hotham family : from thence to Snainton, 

 then to Brompton, (the seat of Sir G. Caylev, Bart.) 

 and through the villages of Wykeham, Ay ton, and 

 Palsgrave, to Scarborough. The moor-land on the 

 north of Kirkby-Moorside, is about three miles 

 from it, and is concealed from the view of the trav- 

 eller by the rising ground ; and were it not from a 

 knowledge of the District, even the inhabitants of 

 the vale of Pickering, would have no notion of so 

 bleak and barren a situation. 



How different is the state of the country in the vi- 

 cinity of Kirkby-Moorside, from the ideas which are 



formed of it by thoughtful and enlightened strangers, 

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