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Yorkshire, Durham, or Derbyshire moors are quite 

 flat, consisting entirely of heather at a certain elevation 

 no doubt above the cultivated districts, but which, once 

 reached, stretches far and wide in a series of very gentle 

 undulations or perfectly flat tableland. A journey 

 along the Settle and Carlisle branch of the Midland 

 Railway, or a tour over the moors on the borders of 

 Yorkshire, Durham, and Westmoreland, will soon 

 dispel this. The gills, sikes, and becks of these 

 counties are comparable to the glens and burns of 

 bonnie Scotland, and the sources of the Ribble and 

 the Wharfe, the Swale and the Ure, the Tees or the 

 Wear, owe their wildest recesses to volcanic convul- 

 sions hardly less violent than those which witnessed 

 the birth of the Dee and the Spey, the Tay and the 

 Tummel. Yet these southern rivers spring from 

 and find their course through the heart of the most 

 famous of the English moors, where more grouse 

 have been killed in one day than many a Scotch 

 keeper looks for in a whole season. 



Again, the low moors of Ayr, Dumfries, or Lanark, 

 as well as of parts of Perth, Aberdeen, or Inverness, 

 are richer in wide expanse of rolling flat and typical 

 driving ground than many of the dales and fells of 

 Cumberland, Westmoreland, or the North Riding. 



' Ah, but,' says one, ' my moor isn't like that ; you 



