THE YORE DISTRICT. 1 69 



covered thickly with aboriginal trees and brush-wood, hazel, 

 whitethorn, brambles, and roses of multiform specific types, 

 and on the south are the broad heathery slopes of Penhill, its 

 peak 1200 feet above the stream. The main fall, which is 

 over a limestone precipice about 20 feet in depth, is exceed- 

 ingly fine in the impression of irresistible force Avhich it gives 

 when the river is swollen as full as it was the last time that I 

 visited the spot. The following are the rarer plants of the glen : 



Aquilegia vulgaris 

 Euonymus europcBus 

 Hippocrepis comosa 

 Rubus saxatilis 

 Rosa micra7itha 

 Galium sylvestre 

 Hieraciutn murorum 

 ,, ccesium 

 „ tridentatum 

 Lithospenmun officinale 

 Lysitnachia vulgaris 

 Polygonum viviparuni 



Daphne Mezereum 

 Ophrys apifera 



,, muscifera 

 Allium Scorodoprasum 

 Eriophorum latifolium 

 Sesleria ccerulea 

 Melica 7iuta7is 

 Lycopodium selaginoides 

 Equisetu7n variegatuin 



Distichiiun capillaceu77i 

 A77iblystegiu7n fluviatile. 



The next three dales, Bishopdale, Waldendale and Coverdale, 

 are very similar to one another in character. They are long 

 narrow dales, with a considerable quantity of wood in their 

 lower parts, their sides steep and grassy and often crested or 

 girdled by limestone cliffs, and they are each terminated by a 

 steep narrow neck of land on the line of the watershed ridge. 

 Southward from Addlebrough along the ridge between Semer- 

 dale and Bishopdale a broad surface of moorland culminates in 

 Stake Fell (1843 feet). Opposite the head of Bishopdale and 

 Waldendale and immediately upon the edge of Wharfedale, 

 Buckden Pike attains 2302 feet, and the ridge which runs from 

 it as a spur towards the north-east and separates the two last- 

 mentioned dales from one another attains 1876 feet in Wasset 

 Fell. This Wasset Fell spur ceases at a considerable distance 

 from the Yore, leaving a Ijroad open well-wooded hollow in 

 which are the villages of Thoralby and West Burton, and the 

 two streams unite a mile above where they join the main river 



Sept. 1888. 



