14 STUDIES OF NATURE 



ourselves or our belongings, right on to the edge 

 of the quay on the Clyde at Ardrossan. In this 

 way we are rid of anxiety and disturbance. 

 Disposing ourselves in one corner or another, 

 we bring out our books or our work and settle 

 down for a day's travel through the splendid 

 scenery of the Border. After Skipton, we were 

 assured of a glorious day bright and breezy, 

 full of life and motion, just the kind of weather 

 for the broad, bare, Yorkshire moorland which 

 lies between Penyghent and Ingleborough. 

 There had been heavy rain in the early morn- 

 ing, and the streams were all swollen dark in 

 the deep places, light brown where broken by 

 the rocks. In this limestone country all the 

 rivers are short and swift, leaping down the 

 precipitous ledge on the hillside, or hurrying 

 along some narrow and gloomy rift. Further 

 on, when we come into Westmoreland, where 

 the lime changes to sand, the rivers are wide, 

 slow, t full-fed,' and sweep majestically across 



