THE ESK DISTRICT, 191 



Ba7-bula latifolia 

 Orihotrichiim Spruce i 



Mnium serratum 

 Heterocladiwn heteropieruvi. 



We must now go back again to Roseberry Topping, and 

 make the circuit of the coast. From Roseberry a line of high 

 moor runs towards the sea in a north-eastern direction, with a 

 steep slope towards the north-west. Amongst the undulations 

 of the hill a pleasant stream takes its rise, which soon reaches 

 the foot of the slope, and then flows down a wooded glen, in a 

 channel diversified by rock in several places, to fall into the sea 

 at Saltburn. The town of Guisbrough stands upon the banks 

 of the stream at a distance of five miles from the sea, and at an 

 elevation above it of not more than loo yards. Immediately 

 in front of the town the moor rises to a height of 700 feet 

 above it, the steep slope covered with fir-plantations and 

 bilberry bushes, and crested by a fine crag of the freestone of 

 the Lower Oolite, which is called Highcliff; and behind the 

 town the swelling curves of Eston Nab rise to shut out the view 

 of the Tees estuary. The rarer plants of the neighbourhood 

 of Guisbrough are : 



Sin apis tenuifolia 

 Geranium sylvatiawi 

 Hieracium trideniatum 

 Atriplex littoralis 

 Juniperiis commutiis 

 Epipadis ensifolia 



Sphagnum fimbriatum 

 Dicr anion fuscescens 

 Orthoirichuni tenelhim 

 Tetrodontiuvi Brownianum. 



From Marske to Saltburn the coast is bounded by banks of 

 sand and diluvial clay, which grow higher and higher towards 

 the east, and inland are the hall and woods of Upleatham, upon 

 the slope towards the east of a rounded hill of Lias, of which 

 the summit is 550 feet above the sea. The view from 

 Upleatham of the hollow of the stream which flows from 

 Guisbrough to Saltburn, of the grey old castle of Skelton, and 

 its environing woods upon the opposite slope, and of the village 

 of Brotton and its church upon the summit of the bare ridge 

 above, is very fine. From the Tees mouth as far eastward as 

 the Saltburn stream, a beautiful sweep of hard sand, which is 



Oct. 1888. 



