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branches of the southern fork of the Leven, scarcely penetrating 

 the moorland mass, whilst on the south of the peaks there is an 

 extensive area of hill-country and the streams have to run down 

 long dales before they reach the open valley. At the head of 

 Bilsdale, which is the hollow immediately west of Burton Head, 

 the pass is under 300 yards, and the Oolitic Sandstone quite 

 cut through. West of this we have the Wainstones (13 17 feet), 

 Cranimoor (1427 feet), and Carlton Bank (1338 feet), bare un- 

 dulated peaks separated from one another by the glens which 

 unite to form Bilsdale : and still further to the west the water- 

 shed ridge reaches 1048 feet over Whorlton and Swainby, from 

 which point the boundary line of the hill-country sweeps abruptly 

 round towards the south. Along the line of this hill-bank, which 

 bounds Cleveland on the south, the Lias attains an elevation of 

 1200 feet and the slope from the top of the hills down to about 

 100 yards is very sudden. Along the crest of the hill the Oolitic 

 Sandstone forms crags at several points, the bank being in some 

 places bare and shaly and in others overspread with fir planta- 

 tions. In one place only is there a rounded knoll of hill insulated 

 from the principal mass, and that is in the neighbourhood 

 of Whorlton, towards the western extremity of the embankment. 

 The southern branch of the Leven runs parallel with the bank 

 at a short distance from its base, and although several small 

 streams have their rise upon this hill-side, only one of them has 

 a dale, and that is called Scugdale, and is situated also near the 

 western extremity of the ridge. The following are the rarer 

 plants of the woods and rocks and hill-slopes from Battersby 

 westward by way of Burton Head and Ingleby Greenhow to the 

 neighbourhood of Stokesley : 



Drosera anglica 

 Rubus plicatus 



„ niucronatus 

 Ribes alpinum 

 Hieracium gothicum 

 „ crocatum 

 Juniperus communis 



Andreaa Rothii 

 Gymnostomiim rupestre 

 Brachyodus trichodes 

 Blindia acuta 

 Dicranum fuscescens 

 Distichium capillaceum 

 Grimmia trichophylla 



