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beyond the diftance of three miles from land, they never catch any but thofe vo- 
racious fifh *, 
Between Flamborough head and Scarborough projects Filey Brig, a ledge of 
rocks running far into the fea, the caufe of frequent fhipwrecks. Scarborough 
caltle, feated on a valt rock projecting into the water, fucceeds. The fpring-tides, 
at the time of the equinoxes, rife here twenty-four feet ; but at other times only 
twenty: the neap-tides from twelve to fixteen, Then Whitby, noted for its 
neighboring allum-works, and more for its fine harbour, the only one on the 
whole coaft: the admittance into which is a narrow channel between two high 
hills: it expands largely within, and. is kept clean by the river ER From 
hence to the mouth of the Yees, the boundary between this county and that of 
Durham, is a high and rude coaft, indented with many bays, and varied with. 
little fifhing villages, built ftrangely among the cliffs, filling every proje@-_ 
ing ledge, in the fame manner with thofe of the peafants in the picturefque 
and rocky parts of China. 
The YZees, the northern limit of this great county, opens with a wide mouth 
and mudded bottom into the fea. This was the Dunum Ejiuarium of Ptolemy ; 
and ferves- as a brief entrance for navigators into the country. Almoft all the 
northern rivers defcend with a rapid courfe, from their mountanous rife and fup- 
ply; and afford but a fhort navigation. From hence the lead of the mineral parts 
of Durham, andthe corn of its more level parts, are imported. In the mud of 
this eftuary, more particularly, abounds the Myxine Glutinofa of Linnaeus, the Hag 
of the neighboring fifhermen ; a worm, which enters the mouths of the fith taken 
on hooks, that remain a tide under water, and devours the whole, leaving only 
the fkin and bones. This alfo is the worm which converts water into a fort of 
glue. 
From Seaton Snook, in the bifhoprick of Durham, to Hartlepool, is a feries of 
fand-banks, and the fhore a long-continued fandy fhallow. From the Nef 
Point of Hartlepool to Blackhalls is a rocky lime-ftone coaft, with frequent inter- 
vals of fand-bank, and a ftony beach ; but Seham and Hartlepool is fo very rugged, 
that no enemy could land, or even ftand off the fhore, without the moft imminent 
danger : in particular, the coafts about Hawthorn Hive are bold, excavated, and 
formed into grotefque figures, for feveral miles, and the fhores rough with a broken 
and heavy fea, by reafon of the hidden rocks and {pits of fands which run out far 
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* Confult vol. iii. of the Br. Zoology for an account of the fifM on this coaft: alfo the Tour in 
Scotland, 1769, To Mr. Travis, Surgeon in Scarboreugh, I am indebted for the moft curious 
articles. : 
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