140 baker's north YORksHlRE. 



basement, by which the railway spans the glen, and of the undu- 

 lated' country round about Barnard Castle, with a background 

 of Durham hills. The following are the rarer plants which 

 Deepdale furnishes : 



Corydalis daviculata 

 Rubus saxatilis 

 Ribes petrceum 

 Crepis succiscE.folia 

 Hieracium gothicum 

 Orimnum vuls:are 



Hordeum sylvaticuin 

 Asplenium viride 



Cynodontmm Briintoni 

 Tetraphis pelhicida 

 Plagiotheciuvi Borrerianum. 



This railway, the South Durham and Lancashire line, has a 



fine viaduct over the Tees upon stone arches, and runs up the 



Stainmoor slope, past Bowes and over the Pennine ridge at the 



lowest part of the Stainmoor hollow, which is under 500 yards 



above the sea-level. Where it crosses the moors there are fine 



views from it of Mickle Fell and Cross Fell upon the north and 



of Water Crag and the Arkengarthdale peaks on the south. 



Scott's oft-quoted lines describe this part of the country as 



viewed by a sentinel from the turret of the castle at Barnard 



Castle. 



'' Far in the chambers of the west, 



The gale had sigh'd itself to rest ; 



The moon was cloudless now and clear 



But pale and soon to disappear ; 



The thin grey clouds wax'd dimly light 



On Brusleton and Houghton height : 



And the rich dale that eastward lay 



Waited the wakening touch of day 



To give its woods and cultured plain 



And towers and spires to light again. 



But westward Stainmoor's shapeless swell, 



And Lunedale wild and Kelton Fell, 



And rock-begirdled Gilmanscar, 



And Arkengarth, lay dark afar. 



While as a livelier twilight falls, 



Emerge proud Barnard's banner'd walls, 



High crown'd he sits, in dawning pale, 



The sovereign of that lonely vale. 



« * * * " 



What prospects, from his watch-tower high, 

 Gleam gradual on the warder's eye, 

 Far sweeping to the east he sees 



