YORKSHIRE NATURALISTS’ UNION AT ROKEBY. 207 
Before this arbour of refuge was attained, much active work was 
out of the question, but, as if to make-up for lost time, the members 
spread well about, and’ spent all their available time under the shade 
of the trees, where the majority of records for the day. were made. 
The streams being somewhat low, the meeting of the Tees and the 
Greta did not present that grand appearance observable in flood time. 
After crossing the stream 
Condemn’d to mine a acenti"s way 
O’er solid sheets of marble gre 
the footpath was followed to Mortham wil which several 
members ascended, in order to see the view obtainable from ‘the 
Summit. A hundred yards further, and the beautiful tomb said to 
have been brought from Egglestone Abbey was reached. One 
member made the sketch from which he afterwards drew the 
following illustration :— 
South of the gate an arrow-flight, 
Two rig od wae their limbs unite, 
As if a opy to spr 
O’er the 0% aveitthaa of the dead ; 
For their huge boughs in arches bent 
Above a massive monument, 
Carved o’er in ancient gothic wise, 
With many a scutcheon and device. : 
Rokepy. Canto ii., Stanza xvii. 
From the armorial ensigns with which the monument is richly 
carved, it is thought to have been a tomb of the F itz-Hughs. Again 
crossing the Greta the site of a Roman camp was inspected. It is 
Well preserved, and forms part of the elaborate system of earthworks 
€rected by our first historic conquerors. 
July 1892 
