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the botanist of the district. Another block which we reproduce 
is that of an Anglo-Saxon skeleton found in Wensley. Park. 
Mr. Speight seems scarcely capable of omitting anything, his 
references are so copious and so minute, but we notice he does 
not give much notice to the mountain tops. Possibly he may be 
of Mr. Gilbert Baker’s view, and regard the Swaledale hills as 
nothing but ‘cragless, treeless, undulated sweeps of hill,’ with 
. JOHN theo borer F.R.S. 
The pioneer of Natural Histo ry in Wensleydale 
rm at Carr End, Wensleydale, 1712; died in J.ondon, 1780. 
‘their surfaces a monotonous iteration of peat bog, heather and 
Swamp.’ And yet these same hills yield the finest of views. 
For instance, Lovely Seat (which might well be named ‘ Lovely 
View’) gives a magnificent panorama on a clear day which can 
be seen in one grand sweep, without change of position beyond 
turning on one’s own axis. It is an acce 
ssible mountain, too, 
January 1898, 
