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and commercial activity traces of the past are rapidly obliterated, in the 

 lonely valleys, on the wide moors, and among the mountains of Westmor- 

 land and Cumberland primeval traditions, dialectic data (as, for example, 

 the use of the digamma, a sounded but unwritten power), ancient monu- 

 ments and vestiges of a long-forgotten civilisation are unmistakable tokens 

 of the former prevalence of almost vanished races. 



Troutbeck is a primitive Westmorland village. George Browne, 

 Esq., the fifth squire of the name in direct succession, is the representative 

 of an ancient ' statesman ' family, and possesses a lai'ge collection of MSS. 

 relating to the county and valley which have been reported on by the 

 Historical MSS. Commission. 



TORKSniRE. 



Places 

 Middleton-in-Teesdale 

 Ingleton . 

 Clapham-in-Craven . 

 Howarth . 

 Flamborough . 

 New Forest, Richmondshi 

 Hallgate . 

 Askingarthdale. 

 Lastingham (Pickering) 

 Staitlies-in-Clevcland 

 Ugthorpe . 

 Hetton-le-Hole . 

 Havenby . 



Newton-upon-RawclifFe 

 Wetwang . 

 Newton-on-Ouse 

 Malton 

 Idle .... 



By whom suggested 

 Dr. Beddoe. 



Mrs. Gutch. 



Dr. Beddoe. 

 Mrs. Gutch. 

 Canon Isaac Taylor. 



Mr.'kark Hill. 

 Mrs. Gutch. 



Mr. Matthew B. Slater. 

 Dr. J. Wright. 



Mrs. Gutch remarks that in the district of New Forest there must be 

 tamlets as unsophisticated as any that Yorkshire can show. Her father's 

 family were established there for centuries, and she visited it in her 

 childhood ; but her people are scattered, and she has not had more than 

 a glimpse of it for well nigh forty years. It seemed at the ' back o' 

 beyont,' and she should think change itself would find some difficulty in 

 getting there. 



At Lastinghara, Dr. Sydney Ringer says, are two Roman camps and 

 some tumuli. ISTot far is an old Saxon sun-dial of the time of Edward the 

 Confessor. The inhabitants are Yorkshire dalesmen, with many of their 

 old customs remaining. 



Staithes is a fishing village, where the folk are notorious for inter, 

 marriages and for their conservation of old customs. Much in the same 

 case were the people of Robin Hood's Ba.y, near Whitby, when White 

 ' walked ' there in 1858. A writer to the ' Times ' in 1885 said that there 

 was a village not more than a mile or two from Staithes ' whose in- 

 habitants are nearly all Romanists.' This is pi'obably Ugthorpe, one of 

 the most secluded places in the neighbourhood, so ' far from the madding 

 crowd ' that the Reformation seems never to have touched it. The like 

 might be asserted, says Mrs. Gutch, of more than one obscure place in 

 Yorkshire. It used to be true of Ovington, twelve miles from Darling- 

 ton, on the southern banks of the Tees. 



Canon Atkinson, Yicar of Dauby, suggests that by villages should be 



