2 T H E C O U N T Y. n 



Viewed as a field of Rural Economy, it 

 is divifible into mountain, upland, and 

 VALE. The Vale of York, falling gently 

 from the banks of the Tees down to the 

 confiux of the Trent and Humber, is Na- 

 ture's grand divifiOn of the County into 

 East and West Yorkshire. 



West Yorkshire naturally fubdividcs 

 into mountains, which I Ihall term the 

 JVfJlern Morebnds -, into Craven, a fertile cor- 

 ner cut off from the county of Lancafler ; 

 and into a various rnaniifa^uring Dtjlriol : 

 East Yorkshire mio Cleveland ; i\\c Er.Jlern 

 AxDidcinds ; the Vale of Pickering and its fur- 

 rounditig banks; the Wolds ', and Holdernefs. 



The Western Morelands are links of the 

 cxtenfive chain of mountains which rife with 

 the Staffordfliire Morelands, and continue 

 ihrough Dcrbyfhirc, Yorkfliirc, Weflmore- 

 land, and Cumberland, almofl without in- 

 terruption, to the Highlands of Scotland. 

 There mountains are covered with heath : 

 but the vallies which intcrfcCt them are cul- 

 livated, WenOey-dalc, the largeft of thefe 

 vallies, is fertile j and abounds with romantic 

 bci.utles. 



Craven 



