208 HOVINGHAM. 



to the mansion and village of Ff ovingham, the eye 

 ranges onwards to Slingsby, Barton, Appleton, 

 Malton, Pickering, the Wolds, and to where the 

 view terminates with the hills in the vicinity of 

 Scarbro.' Another beautiful landscape presents it- 

 selfon the left, where are seen, the hillof Cauklass, 

 with its line of aged firs, -the small village and 

 church of Stonegrave, sheltering under its friendly, 

 bank, the hall of Laysthorpe, and the romantic 

 village of Oswaldkirk. The woods that extend 

 themselves at the back of this station, are of great 

 extent, covering no less than 450 acres of ground. 

 An oak tree of unusual bulk and extraordinary beau- 

 ty, which occurs on the outskirts of the wood, near 

 the village of Cawton ; and from which the hand of 

 feeling and taste have hitherto witheld that indis- 

 criminate and universal leveller, the axe, here 

 stands monarch of the woods ; and like an ancient 

 patriarch has witnessed successive generations, suc- 

 cessively rising and successively passing away ; 

 while unmoved he stands amidst his upstart juniors, 

 awaiting the hand of time. 



.... .... .... .... To time 



The task is left to whittle thee away 

 "With his sly scythe, whose ever-nibbling edge- 

 Noiseless, an atom, and an atom more, 

 Disjoining from the rest, will, unobserved 

 Achieve a labour, whicij had far and wide 

 By man performed, made all the forest ring. 



Cowper's Yardley Oak. 



Through these woods a Roman vicinal road has 

 probably passed from Malton through this village 



