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dripping of a petrifying water ; the incruftations of various co- 

 lours, with fmall hollows and arches of fretwork and petrified 

 mofs. They are two of the moil beautiful groups of petrifica*- 

 tions that I have obferved any where with us. 



Cateraffs, or Water-falls, prefent themfelves in many places 

 among our mountains and hills, in great magnificence and 

 beauty. The rivulet of Chetlup, near the high mountain Reed- 

 fquire, has a fall of feventy feet. It is called Chetlup-Spout : 



The Coquet i a mile below Rothbury, by a corn-mill and a Hate- 

 quarry, had formerly a great fall, but has been lowered to fa- 

 vour the afcent of the falmon up the ftream. A few yards lower 

 down, that fine river is confined between two rocks, and may be 

 flept over with great cafe, entering them with mufical fympathy 

 from little flopes and precipices. Its contracted current is here 

 called 



The Thrum. It is in length about fixty yards ; in breadth one 

 yard, where narroweft, and there four yards deep, when the 

 river is low, and the fummer dry and fine. The mountain-tor- 

 rents or floods have pierced the rocks, of ordinary freeftone, into 

 numerous holes, fome of them refembling little furnaces or 

 caldrons. 



Near the mountain of Little-Cheviot, three miles north-weft from 

 Ingram, is a cateraft, called, 



Linhope-Linn ; alfo Rough ting-Linn, from its noife in its fall after 

 great rains ; the word roughting being alfo ufed by the borderers, 

 on hearing the lowing and bellowing of cattle. It is nearly per- 

 pendicular, forty-feven feet and a half, from a rock of brown 

 whin, fpotted with green ; the bafon feven feet over, and in depth 



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