i88 baker's north Yorkshire. 



the swelling curvatures of the lines of the heathery hills. The 

 following are the more remarkable plants of this neighbourhood: 



Geranium sylvaticum 

 Anthemis nobilis 

 Bidens tripartita 

 Vaccinium Oxy coccus 

 Myrica Gale 

 Juniperus communis 



Audreaa Rothii 



Dicranum fuscescens 

 Hedwigia cilia ta 

 Grimmia trichophylla 

 Orthotrichum rivtilare 

 Ulota Drum7nondii 

 Mnium stellare 



„ subglobosum 

 Fontinalis squamosa. 



From Castleton to the mouth of the Esk at Whitby the dis- 

 tance is fourteen miles, the course of the stream due east, and 

 the fall in its bed but trifling. On the north-east of Castleton 

 the moor attains an elevation of 988 feet in Danby Beacon, 

 which commands an excellent view of a wide surface of heathery 

 country on the north and north-east, diversified by tumuli and 

 woods and glens, and bounded by the winding line of the coast. 

 Lower down the river there is on the north a long narrow 

 wooded glen called Stonegate Gill, and on the south three 

 more of the branch dales. Great Fryupdale, Little Fryupdale, 

 and Glaisdale. On the end of the spur of hill between Danbydale 

 and Fryupdale stand the ruins of the old castle of the Bruces, 

 from which Castleton takes its name, surrounded by planta- 

 tions of feathery larches. There is a communication over a 

 neck of land at their head between the two dales of Fryup, and 

 on the end nearest the Esk of the ridge which separates them 

 is Danby Crag, a sandstone edge with a dark holly wood upon 

 its slope, and alder and birch below. There is above Lealholm 

 bridge a pleasant steep wooded rocky glen, called Crunkley 

 Gill, which is hemmed in upon one side by the termination to- 

 wards the Esk of the ridge between Fryupdale and Glaisdale : 

 and here grow Fissidens pusillus, Hypnum pumilum, and 

 II. heteropterum. Opposite where Glaisdale opens out 

 we have upon the edge of the heather at an elevation of 

 about 200 yards, and at a distance from the Esk of a mile, the 

 little town of Egton, and between Glaisdale and Goathland dale 



