l6o baker's north YORKSHIRE. 



To the north stretches the gradually widening glen of the Eden 

 (Mallerstang), to the south that of the Yore (Wensleydale). 

 The Eden is a mere mountain rivulet till it has descended from 

 the fells into the hollow, and then with an undulated sweep 

 of ordinary grassy heathery moorland all around, it plunges 

 suddenly into what is called Hell Gill, in some respects 

 certainly the most remarkable glen which our field of study 

 has to shew. From the very edge of the water upon both 

 sides limestone precipices, to a height of fifty feet, rise so 

 sheerly and abruptly, that in one place, with the maddened 

 mountain torrent foaming and boiling at a depth of fifty feet 

 beneath their edges, it is easy to leap across from one crag 

 to the other. The length of the ravine is under a quarter of 

 a mile and in it the stream declines rapidly in level. The 

 cliffs are over-grown in many places by mosses and bushes, 

 but the recesses of the glen it is almost impossible to explore 

 without a rope, for its sides are much too steep to be climbed, 

 and there is nothing at the bottom but the mere stream 

 channel, and not very far from its opening there is a pool of 

 dark peat-stained water a couple of yards in depth, into which 

 if a luckless mountain sheep fall, woe betide it. The rarer 

 plants of the glen are Draba incana, Rubus saxaiilis, Hieracium 

 mtirorum, Galium sylvestre, Asplenium vlrlde, Gynmostomum 

 rupestre, and Bartramla CEderl. 



The Yore runs down into the hollow from the peaks at a very 

 short distance from the Eden and nearly parallel with it. From 

 the Shaw Paddock Inn, which stands by the side of the high 

 road at a distance of not much more than a mile from Hell 

 Gill, it flows for six miles towards the south east ; on its banks 

 about Birk-rigg the two rare hawkweeds, Hieracium prenan- 

 tholdes and H. coryjnbosum grow abundantly. Here it increases 

 rapidly and from the moors upon both sides of the hollow 

 little streams join it at very short intervals. On the east we 

 have a long unbroken ridge, called Cotter Fell, which attains 

 2186 feet at its culminating point. Upon the east side of this 



