WEST SWALE DISTRICT. 



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Below Keld the Swale runs through a narrow rocky ravine 

 before it turns towards the south. Here it forms over the 

 Underset Limestone a waterfall about thirty feet in depth, 

 which is called Kisdon Force. The scars of the Underset 

 Limestone margin the stream both above the fall and below it, 

 often contracting the peat-stained waters between narrow 

 channels of rock. The wooded and scar-girdled hills rise 

 abruptly both upon the north and south of the river to a height 

 of 500 feet above it, the Main Limestone rising steeply along 

 the hill slope as we proceed in an eastern direction from the 

 waterfall. From this ravine the rocky glens of East Stonesdale 

 and Hind Hole both branch out and on the east the ridge of 

 Rogan's Seat rises to a height of 1200 feet above the river. 

 This steep craggy sylvan glen, shut in upon three sides by high 

 mountain walls, showing through its opening on the west the 

 brown moors and the wavy line of the ridge of the crescent 

 peaks, is one of the finest and most interesting portions of the 

 river. The following are the rarer plants of the ravine, and of 

 the stream-side from the smelting mill downwards : 



Draba incana 



Viola lutea 



Arenaria verna 



Riibus saxatilis 



Rosa spinosissima 



Epilobium afigtisiifo/iii/n 



Kibes petrceufu 



Siixifraga Jiypnoides 



Galium sylvestre 



Hienicium a?igliai/n 

 „ murorum 

 ,, gothiciivi 

 „ prenanthoides 

 „ crocaitan 



Taxus baccaia 



Jimiperus commiuiis 

 Salix phylicifolia 

 Sesteria ccerulea 

 Poa )iemoralis 

 Asplcjiiuiii vif ide 



GyniiiostoDuun curvirostnun 

 Distichium capillaceiwi 

 Amphoridiuni Mougeotii 

 Webera auda 

 Bryum pallcscens 

 Mnium cnspidatiim 

 Bartiamia CEderi 

 Fissidens osmiaidoides. 



Following the highway from Keld to Muker we have opposite 

 Angram a fine range of rugged and broken Main Limestone 

 ])recipices girdling the crest of Kisdon, and 70 feet below 

 them a scar of Underset Limestone with a fir plantation upon 



Sept. 1 388. 



