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pice the Morelands dip gently fouthward 

 to the Vale of Pickering ; on whofe verge 

 rife abruptly a range of thin-foiled limeftone 

 heights ; which, in a fimilar manner, flielve 

 gently into the Vale ; forming its northera 

 margin. 



The Vale of Pickering is a fingular 

 paffage of country. A lake left dry by na- 

 ture. A bafon, formed by eminences on 

 every fide, fave one narrow outlet of the wa- 

 ters cclledted within its area, and upon the 

 adjacent hills. Nature, perhaps, never was 

 fo near forming a lake without finifhing the 

 dcfign. A dam of inconfiderable length 

 acrofs the Derwent, near Malton, would 

 deluge the entire Vale ; and the firfl paffage 

 of the waters would, in alT probability, be 

 down the fea cliffs, which are its eallern ex-? 

 tremity. 



The Wolds of Yorkfliirp appear as if, 

 during fome convulfion of 1 ;ture, they had 

 been fevered (by the fea-likc Humber and its 

 broad rich banks) from thofe of Lincoln- 

 Ihire. In the prefen"! ftate of things they 

 may be confidered as the main link broken 

 o{f from the chain of chalky hills which is 

 B 4 thrown 



