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YORKSHIRE NATURALISTS AT INGLETON. 
IT is a long time since the enthusiasm of the members of the 
Yorkshire Naturalists’ Union was so thoroughly damped as it 
was on the occasion of their August Bank Holiday meeting at 
Ingleton. A very representative gathering assembled on Friday 
evening, and the previous spell of glorious summer weather 
gave every reason to believe that the Bank Holiday was to 
be a perfect one. However, as the best laid schemes of both 
the smaller and larger mammalia ‘ gang aft a-gley,’ so, toa large 
extent, was the week-end at Ingleton marred by a continuous 
downpour of rain, as remarkable as it was severe. 
During Friday night the rains, fortunately, had swollen the 
rills and streams feeding the two rivers which flow through the 
village, and make its “ scenery,’ which is duly labelled and par- 
titioned off, and charged for. With the help of the Saturday’s 
rain, too, these rivers were well in flood, and the waterfalls 
were magnificent. We even forgot the rain and damp clothes 
and bad tempers as we gazed at the grand flow of waters, which 
must have somewhat resembled the Lodore of the poem. 
Clothed with mackintoshes, top-coats, patent waterproof 
trousers, umbrellas, and a variety of headgear, a motley party 
started on the Saturday morning, to carry out the day’s 
programme ; and carried it out, though all the ‘ waterproof’ 
coverings were of no avail, and all arrived at headquarters— 
the Ingleborough Hotel—in the evening, thoroughly soaked 
through. According to the programme, the party duly 
proceeded ‘via Dale Beck to Keld Head, and thence to 
Yordas Cave at the head of Kingsdale, and along the Scars 
of Greygarth, past the Gingling and Rowting Pot Holes, and 
thence via Thornton Force to Ingleton.’ 
There were two dry intervals, both delightful. The first 
was at Kingsdale Head Farm House, where, through the kind- 
ness of Mr. Robinson, the owner, a substantial tea was pro- 
vided for the party, who also had the advantage of a fine, hot 
fire. And this is August! The other was in Yordas Cave 
a grand hole in the Carboniferous Limestone, down which, at 
one end, the waters poured in a cataract. The view inside 
this cavern, made possible by the aid of magnesium wire, was 
glorious. The modern method of artificial lighting was very 
different from that formerly used, when a primitive rush-light 
contrivance was held up to the ceiling by means of a long pole. 
The remains of one of these appliances was observed in the 
cave, and proved very heavy to carry. 
On Saturday evening, Mr. J. J. Burton presided at a meet- 
ing, when Mr. Cosmo Johns gave an interesting account of 
some of the geological features of the district, in the ight of 
recent research. 
Naturalist, 
