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ranged in irregular double order, and terrace succeeding terrace 

 of bands of ironstone and marlstone ; and then the extensive 

 workings in the whinstone, which supply the material for paving 

 the streets of Leeds and other Yorkshire towns. Beyond, in the 

 great plain of fertile country, lay the villages and towns of Upper 

 Cleveland, as far as the vale of the Tees, where Domesday Book 

 ends at the ancient boundary between the separate kingdoms of 

 Bernicia and Deira, which afterwards made up one great Nor- 

 thumbrian realm, that stretched from the Clyde to the Humbcr, 

 and from sea to sea. Notwithstanding the haze in the far dis- 

 tance from the recent showers, the view was magnificent of the 

 romantic outline of the great amphitheatre of the Cleveland hills 

 on the south and west, with Captain Cook's monument, a lofty 

 obelisk, on Earsby Moor ; and, in the north, the ruined Augus- 

 tinian Abbey of Guisbro', with its stately east gable and beautiful 

 window, nestling in the valley beneath, which has been com- 

 pared with Puteoli in Italy. Then, to re-call our thoughts to 

 our own Tyneside, there were the busy industries, so quickly and 

 marvellously developed, of Middlesborough and the Hartlepools 

 between this and our intermittent glimpses of the blue expanse 

 of the Grerman Ocean. 



Om route led us, in returning, through " Newton under llose- 

 berry," where the curious emblematic sculptures and floriated 

 crosses built into the walls of the little ancient church, recently 

 restored, attracted attention. One stone above the porch looked 

 like a grave-cover, with the Percy badge, probably a lion cou- 

 chant, very indistinct and unleonine-looking, at the foot of the 

 sepulchral cross. I imagine it to be similar to those sculptured 

 tomb-flags discovered in rebuilding the adjoining church of Kil- 

 dale in 1867, the Pcrcies of Kildale being lords of this district. 

 The dedication of the interesting old chapel of Newton is appa- 

 rently unknown, but it was anciently under Ayton, and was given 

 to that church in 1123 by Robert dc Meinell to the abbot and 

 convent of AVhitby. It is singular to find in this neighbourhood 

 so many noble proprietors who had also large possessions in 

 Northumberland. As connecting the Eosebcrry with the Holy 

 Island Field Meeting, we find that the moiety of Belford {inter 



