192 baker's north YORKSHIRE. 



more or less covered at high water, stretches along the foot of 

 the sea-bank and sand-hills ; and west of this rising watering- 

 place the cliffs begin, to continue, with breaks, almost till the 

 Esk is reached. The following are the rarer plants of the woods 

 and sea-shore in this neighbourhood : 



Artemisia maritinia 

 Ligustriim vulgare 

 Atropa Belladonna 

 Salvia Verbenaca 

 Marrubium vulgare 

 Samolus Valerandi 

 Car ex pendula 

 Calamagrostis Epigejos 

 Triticutn Juncemn 



Thalictrum minus 

 Cakile maritima 

 Helianthetnum vulgare 

 Silene maritiftia 

 Euonymus europcBus 

 Medicago maculata 

 Spircea Filipendula 

 Rosa Sabini 

 Scabiosa Columbaria 

 Helminthia echioides 

 Carduus tenuiflorus 



Fissidens crassipes. 



The streams of that portion of the coast which we have now 

 reached have their rise amongst the broad surfaces of heather- 

 land which . ascend from the north bank of the Esk, and of 

 which Danby Beacon is the culminating peak. Beginning in 

 heathery glens, they soon sink through the Oolitic beds, and 

 growing gradually larger as they descend, are often bordered 

 with thick woods in the lower part of their course. Upon the 

 sea-margin, or within a short distance of the coast, there are in 

 the breaks of the hill-country several villages of moderate size, 

 partly agricultural and partly maritime, with a strong dash 

 interfused of the iron- and alum-mining element j and between 

 the gills which contain these streams and woods and villages, 

 the spurs of the hill-country stretch out to form along the 

 shore-line a series of magnificent precipices, the barriers which 

 guard this prominent line of coast, bulwarks which as year 

 follows year, and summer succeeds to spring, and winter to 

 autumn, in unvaried cycle of repetition, the waves of ocean 

 ceaselessly beat against. 



The first crag, Huntcliife, begins at Saltburn, and forms a 

 prominent object in the view from Redcar and the Tees 

 mouth. The greatest height which it reaches is 260 feet, and 



