THE BASIN OF THE HUMBEE. 



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their way into the sea, the hills rise once more to the north of the estuary of the 

 Humber, and, trending round to the eastward, terminate in the bold promontory 

 of Flamborough Head. To the north lie the wild and barren York Wolds, 

 whose northern face is known as the Cleveland Hills. They are composed of 

 liassic strata capped by oolitic rocks, and abound in picturesque scenery, and from 

 their culminating summits afford at once a view of the distant vale of the Tees and 

 of the sea studded wich vessels. Here and there the more prominent heights are 

 crowned with funereal mounds, locally known as houes* and every position of 

 strategical importance is defended by vast entrenchments. These entrenchments 



Fig. 115. — The Mouth of the Humber and Part of Holderness. 

 Scale 1 : 450,000. 



5 Miles. 



can still be traced for miles, and they converted the valley of the Derwent, at the 

 back of Scarborough, as well as the whole of the peninsula which is bounded by 

 the Humber in the south, into vast camps. The entrenchment near Scarborough 

 is still known as the Dances Di/ke. Some of the barrows, or /iokcs, on the Cleveland 

 Hills are as much as 200 feet in length, of quadrangular shape, and placed due east 

 and west. Skulls and flint and bronze implements have been found in them, 

 and prove that they do not all belong to the same epoch. Rolleston, the 

 archaeologist, is of opinion that some of the skulls resemble those of the Yeddahs 

 of Ceylon. 



* Hb(/, in Old Swedish or Jutic ; hoi in Danish. 



