134 The Hunting Countries of England. 



Park. The Black Banks, on the course of the Weir, 



and on the extreme edge of the country, are quite a 

 feature in this district — forming a chain of tremen- 

 dously strong covert. It is altogether a rough wild 

 tract — with heather, bogs, rocks, and riverbeds. The 

 Tees in its higher and earlier stages is peculiarly 

 crude and rocky. There are few regular coverts of 

 any size. Foxes lie in the heather, in the wood 

 fringing the streams, or in the occasional straggHng 

 moor hedges. Marwood is the meet for the Tees 

 Banks ; and Kinninvie for such coverts as the little 

 woods of Hollandside, Paddock, and Hough Gill. On 

 Tuesdays and Saturdays, it should have been men- 

 tioned, the hounds have to be vanned — to the distant 

 meets beyond the Tees. 



