i4 VALE OF PICKERING. 2; 



The range of hills which rife at Malton, 

 and fill lip rhe fpace between the wolds and 

 the heights of Hambledon ; which at prefent 

 are without a name ; but which I lliall term 

 the HowARDiAN Hills * ; are lower and lefs 

 abrupt; terminating in a various foil; cover- 

 ing a well-grounded, well-wooded, line 

 fporting country ; — the inferior hills of Kent. 



The NORTHERN MARGIN rifcs in general 

 Hill lefs abruptly ; terminating in a thin 

 limeflone loam, lying on a chain of heights, 

 broken by wooded vallies, and backed by 

 the morcland hills ; which are interfected 

 by cultivated " dales," appendages of the 

 *' country" out of which they iffue. 



The Climature of the Vale is above the 

 latitude it lies in (54*'. )• The fummer feafons 

 are at lead three weeks behind thofe of the 

 ibuthern provinces. What is remarkable, 

 the feafons on the fouthern banks, about 

 Malton, lying of courfe with a north afpedt, 

 are forwarder, by more than a week, than 



thofe 



* Castle-Howap. n, the magnificent refidcnce of 

 IIowARu Eari, f;f Ca.m. isT.B, 13 foatcd amon^; thcfc 

 hillocks. 



