The east swale district. 



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Opposite the south-western corner of the calcareous range is 

 an outlying nab, capped with limestone, which is called Hood 

 Hill, and which is nearly as high as the adjacent part of the 

 main mass of moorland. Upon three sides it has an abrupt 

 wood-covered slope, and in a southern direction declines more 

 gradually. The escarpment of the calcareous range towards the 

 south, from Roulston Scar westward over Kilburn and Coxwold, 

 is almost as abrupt as the slope which faces west. This portion 

 of the calcareous plateau is between 800 and 900 feet, and the 

 bank is mostly covered with woods. A small branch of the 

 Swale takes its rise upon this embankment, but its glens do not 

 penetrate far into the recesses of the hill-country. Cockerdale 

 is a pleasant wooded rocky hollow, and two other branches of 

 the same stream rise, one of them in Wass Woods, and the 

 other upon the southern slope of Hood Hill. The ruins of 

 Byland Abbey stand in the low ground at the foot of Wass 

 Bank, and the extremity of the arenaceous Howardian terrace 

 forms here the watershed of this district upon the south-east. 

 The hall and fish-pond of Newburgh are pleasantly situated in 

 the midst of an extensive park upon the slope of the terrace in 

 this direction, and still further west upon the same slope is the 

 village of Husthwaite, and above it the arenaceous crag of 

 Beacon Bank. The following are the rarer plants of the neigh- 

 bourhood of Coxwold : 



Ranunculus circiiiatus 



„ Lingua 



Arabis hirsuta 

 Stellaria nouorum 

 Radiola Millegiana 

 Hypericum luontanum 

 Scrophularia vernalis 

 Latlircea squamaria 

 Mcfitha sylvestris 

 Calntiiiutha officinalis 

 Sa/ix nigricans 

 Arundo Catamagrostis 



Brachy podium pi una turn 



Brachyodus tricJiodes 

 Seligeria Doniana 

 Barbula marginata 

 Mniuni cuspidaium 

 Philonotis calcarea 

 Fissidens pusillus 

 Eurhynchium cras^i)ierviiun 

 Eurhynchiuni pumilum 

 Hyocojnium fiagellare 

 Rhynchostegium depressum. 



Jan. 1889. 



