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place by the coach which runs three times a 

 week from York to Middleham. Leaving 

 the coach at Masham, a clean little market 

 town, about eight miles from Middleham, 

 he can try a cast in the Eure, where he 

 perhaps may succeed in catching a gray- 

 ling, a species of the salmo, which is some- 

 times taken in this neighbourhood. About 

 five miles north-west of Masham stand the 

 ruins of Jerveaux Abbey, which, about twenty 

 years ago, were cleared by order of the noble 

 owner, the late Earl of Aylesbury, of the 

 mass of rubbish that blocked up every 

 avenue, and overtopped the remaining walls. 

 These ruins, though much more dilapidated 

 than those of Fountains, are still highly 

 interesting to the traveller who loves to 

 survey such venerable monuments of ancient 

 piety and art; and not less so from their 

 being but seldom visited by fashionable 

 tourists, who hurry from cave to hill, and 

 from minster to abbey, not that they are 

 sensible of the mystic charm, which the 





