OF THE WATERS. 13 



Bromley-Lake is a mile north-eaft from the fame ftation ; and at 

 the weft end of the ridge of rocks at Shelving- foeels, by the Roman 

 wall. It is a noble piece of water. It is a mile long, and half 

 a mile broad ; not a weed or a rufh in it, except a few at the weft 

 end ; the bottom of white fand and pebbles. On a llope at the 

 fouth-eaft end is a ridge of rocks, in which is a natural ftone- 

 grotto, the roof of one entire ftone, rifing obliquely to the hori- 

 zon, eighteen feet long, terminating in a point from a broad 

 bafe ; giving a full view of the lake, formed like a bafon, with 

 Hoping banks. It is on the eftate of William Lotves, of Ridley- 

 Hall, Efq; and in the manor of Sir Ed-ward Blacket, of Wejl Matfen^ 

 Bart, as are the three lakes before defcribed. 



Halypike'Lake is two miles eaft from Bromley, and a mile north 

 from Sheiuing-JJjeels. It is fmall, the bottom of fand and pebbles ; 

 the weft end of a great depth, abounding with rumes, and the 

 two water-lilies, the double white and yellow ; the two galeated 

 or hooded purple loofe-ftrifes in a bog beyond them. It is on the 

 eftate and in the manor of Sir Lancelot Allgood, of Nunivick, Knt. 



Grunden-Lake, fo called from its iituation on a low ground, den, 

 or valley, (our northern people calling ground, Grund) is a mile 

 fouth-eaft from the Roman ftation of Houfe-Jlceds, and in view from 

 it. It is long and narrow, ftretching eaft and weft about a mile ; 

 the bottom of white fand ; of a great depth at the weft, and fhal- 

 low at the eaft, end. 



Shilden-Lakc, corruptly for Sbeel'den Lake, i. e. the lake near the 

 flieels or houfe by the den or valley of South Tyne, is near Car- 

 bridge, in fight from the thirteen mile-ftone on the military road 

 the Roman wall, from which it is about a mile. It is about 



half 



