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Books and Maps. 



The whole district is comprised in Sheets 25 and 92 (new series), of 

 the One-inch Ordnance Maps. For further information see Baker's 

 'North Yorkshire' (in 'Transactions of Y.N.U.,' part xii, page 128); 

 'The Flora of Teesdale,' 1883 (Atkinson, Market Place, Barnard 

 Castle); 'The Musci and Hepaticffi of Teesdale,' 1844, by Richard 

 Spruce ('Trans. Bot. Soc. Edinb.); 'Teesdale Botany,' by James 

 Backhouse ('Nat.,' 1884, page 10); 'Notes on the Avi-Fauna of 

 Upper Teesdale,' by James Backhouse, Junr., (' Nat.,' 1885, page 353 ; 

 and 'Nat.,' 1888, page 79). Phillips' 'Rivers, Mountains, and Sea 

 Coast of Yorkshire,' Second Edition, pp. 17, 18, 45, 51, 190. 

 'Geology of High Teesdale,' by Prof Sedgwick. (Cam. Phil. Trans., 

 1824, Vol. II. p. 174). Discovery of Silurian beds in Teesdale 

 (Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc, London, 1877, pp. 27—34.) 



Hotel Accommodation. 



As this is limited. Members who wish to take part in this excursion 

 are advised to w-rite to the Hotel-keepers at least a fortnight be- 

 forehand to secure rooms. The following prices are for bed, break- 

 fast, tea, and attendance : — At Middleton-in-l"eesdale, ' Cleveland 

 Arms,' 5s. 6d. ; ' Foresters' Arms,' King's Head,' 'Talbot,' and the Tem- 

 perance Commercial Hotels, each 4s. 6d. ' High Force Inn,' five miles 

 from Middleton, 6s. (attendance extra) ; ' Langdon Beck Inn,' seven 

 miles from Middleton, 4s. Conveyances can take Members to Langdon 

 Beck from Middleton station and back from the ' High Force Inn ' 

 for IS. 6d. per head or is. each for the single journey. 



^p° The Hon. Secretaries wish it to be distinctly understood that 

 they undertake no responsibility whatever in the matter of hotel or 

 conveyance accommodation. 



Routes— Saturday, August 3rd. 



On arrival at 11-28 a.m. drive in waggonettes to Langdon Beck, 

 seven miles, walk over Widdy Bank to Cauldron Snout, cross Tees, 

 and Maize Beck, examine Cronkley Scars, and site of old Pencil 

 Works, and follow down the river bank to the High Force ; thence 

 walk or drive to Middleton-in-Teesdale, five miles ; total distance, 

 including drive, about eighteen miles. 



Or shorter route : — Drive to Langdon Beck and immediately after 

 crossing Harwood Beck turn to the left by lime-kiln and strike the 

 Tees at the nearest point and cross, follow the south bank, go over 

 Cronkley Bridge and follow path which leads into the road to High 

 Force. 



In the evening Mr. J. Backhouse, jun., invites geological members 

 to visit a bone cave in Durham, about two miles from High Force. 



Monday, August 5th. 



On arrival of 11-28 a.m. train, visit AVhinstone Quarries, close to 

 Middleton Station, Avalk up Yorkshire bank of Tees, explore Park End 



