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tion and a plan, by which I was afterwards enabled to exactly 
identify the station upon the 6-inch Ordnance map.  Selside is 
connected with Ribblehead by an ordinary enclosed road, the 
distance between the two places being 22 miles. From Selside 
a somewhat devious cart-track crosses the lower moors to Clapham. 
Font Green is on the first portion of this track (barely a quarter of 
a mile from the hamlet), where it passes between two boundary-walls 
standing rather widely apart. A streamlet, which rises at Font 
Green Spring, runs near the track, eastward, for about fifty yards, 
and then disappears in a ‘swallow,’ to reappear in another fifty 
yards and resume its course. It is where for the first fifty yards 
the beck and the trackway alike traverse the open space between the 
walls, that the 4. gothica is found. It occurs on both sides of 
the road and of the streamlet, which are from 20 to 25 yards apart, 
the course of the latter being somewhat winding; abundantly (in 
1891) on masses of almost bare limestone with patches of moss and 
grass, and also, sparingly, among the loose stones and in the ruts of 
the cartway itself. The elevation of this station is slightly less than 
1,000 feet. 
Following the track across the hill towards Clapham, at 13 miles 
from Font Green, a third station is reached, and a fourth at a mile 
still further on. These were the two discovered by Mr. Farrer in 
1894, and included by him as one in his report already alluded to. 
The first reached is where the road crosses, at a level of between 1,175 
and 1,200 feet, the upper end of a rough shallow depression in the 
limestone, known as Sulber Nick. On the edges and sides of 
the Nick, and also along and near the track for some space before 
reaching it and after leaving it, the Avenarta is found. Then comes 
another Aia¢us of a mile, but when, at that further distance, the 
highest point of the road—1,250 feet—is reached, the species again 
appears in plenty, ‘never far from the track.’ From here it gradually 
thins off on the slope towards Clapham Bottoms, and a hundred 
yards before the open hill is left, through a gate in the boundary 
wall, it ceases altogether. 
The hill track thus far pursued enters an actual road at Clapham 
Bottoms, which leads down Clapdale to Ingleborough Hall and 
Clapham village, leading past the mouth of the celebrated Cave and 
the beck which there issues to the light, and continuing along the 
eastern bank of the valley. Lower down, the beck ‘runs into, Or 
rather forms, the great lake which has replaced the former tarn and 
forms so grand a feature of the Ingleborough Hall grounds. Opposite 
to the lake, the road crosses a small depression, known as Spring 
Valley, tributary to the main valley below. Ona small area of grass- 
a Naturalist, 
