304 ROTHERAY: FURTHER DISCOVERIES OF ARENARIA GOTHICA. 
As, however, this part of the district was to me an unknown one, 
my first efforts, on reaching the precincts of the Nick, were directed 
to searching for the spot at its head, or western end, where the cart- 
track was said to cross it; but although I carefully scanned every 
possible means of entrance in that direction, not one could be 
found whereby a horse and cart could ever reach the bottom of the 
depression, this being at least some 60 or 7o feet below the level of 
the adjoining pasture at its north and western sides. Moreover, in 
addition to the steep and rugged sides, the western end of the Nick 
was encircled by a high stone wall which ran all along the top of the 
highest terrace and partly along the north side, in the former of 
which could be seen a small wicket-gate, evidently the only means 
ad. To have gone back would have been a failure of the objects 
intended by the journey. 
Happily this course proved the means of salvation, for before 
house was 
round a large hill to the left, as directed, a short cut along the 
higher terraces bounding the western side of the head of Crummack 
Dale was taken, and after twice climbing the wall which separated 
the open moorland from the head of Crummack Dale and Sulber 
Nick, the cart-track was at last found at a point where both it and 
the wall for nearly 500 yards ran almost parallel with each other, the 
latter terminating at its junction just beyond the wicket-gate already 
mentioned, with another wall dividing Sulber pasture from the open 
r. Immediately on gaining the track, which from this point 
ran southwards right across the open moor towards Clapham 
Bottoms and Crummack Dale, a diligent search along it in the 
opposite direction towards Selside was commenced, the track itself 
as well as the ground on each side of it, being slowly and carefully 
examined. After going a short distance, signs of the Avenaria in 
single plants here and there began to appear, the plants increasing 
in number at short intervals as the track approached near the head 
of the Nick. This I concluded must be the spot indicated to me as 
that discovered in September 1894, by Mr. Farrer. There was, 
however, this difference in regard to position, that whereas his 
locality was described as ‘the track crossing the upper end of Sulber 
Nick,’ the track in this case was entirely on the open moor an 
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