YORKSHIRE. 2)5 



MORELANDS. 



THE SITUATION of this Diftricl was 

 given in defcribing the COUNTY at large. 

 And, in giving a more minute defcription of 

 the Vale of Pickering, the Morelands are 

 mentioned as bleak mountains, covered with 

 heath, and interfered by CULTIVATED 

 DALES. Thefe dales have been already no- 

 ticed as appendages of the Vale ; fo far as 

 they are noticeable. What I propofe under 

 the prefent head, is to give fome account of 

 the MOUNTAINS and their UNCULTIVATED 



VALLIES. 



The CLIMATURE of the Morelands is ex- 

 tremely bleak ; feveral degrees of latitude 

 colder than the Vale of Pickering ; where 

 rain, or perhaps open weather, will frequent- 

 ly prevail, while the Morelands are covered 

 with fnow. 



The EXTENT of the Eaftern Morelands, 



including the hills of HAMBLEDON, is thirty 



to forty miles of length, by ten to fifteen 



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