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from the severity of its impact upon their bodies, was as of 

 some dry and solid materials impinging against them, such as 

 might be imagined of a shower of gravel or pebbles. The 

 heavier volume of the water beneath which, though also broken 

 up in its descent, it was found impossible to stand without 

 resting the hands upon the shelving rock, and which bent the 

 back and legs with its weight as it fell upon them, they likened 

 to a shower of cobble-stones, with now and then a boulder. 

 Amongst other plants were noticed this day the melancholy 

 Thistle, Wood Sanicle, Sweet "Woodruff, White Bedstraw, and 

 Marsh Marigold. After dinner on this day two members were 

 elected to the Club. 



On the second day of this meeting (Thursday, June 25th) the 

 members present divided into two parties. One party taking an 

 early train from Askrigg to Hawes walked thence by Hard- 

 row Scar up Fossdale Beck towards Muker in Swaledale to visit 

 the ^'Buttertubs." The other party walked from Askrigg up 

 the vale of the Tire to Hardrow and Hawes. The morning was 

 cloudy with occasional showers, but the storm of the previous 

 day had abated and towards noon the weather brightened and 

 the rest of the day was very fine. The waterfall at Hardrow 

 Scar is said to be ninety-six feet in height, but whether this is 

 its present height, or its height before certain repairs which have 

 been recently made to the rock over which it falls, I do not 

 know. It is possible that since these repairs some ten feet or 

 so must be added to the ninety-six feet. It now takes an un- 

 broken leap from the built-up rock, level with the bed of its 

 stream, into the dark pool beneath. This pool is nearly sur- 

 rounded by lofty clifPs^ in the form of "a horse shoe, which echo 

 and re-echo continually the roar of this imposing fall. The 

 shaley cliff behind it, being softer than the superincumbent stra- 

 tum of rock over which the water is precipitated, has receded 

 by disintegration, forming a canopy under which is a footpath 

 enabling visitors to walk' behind and under the fall from one 

 side of the stream to the other. During recent severe winters 

 this fall has, I am told, been frozen into an immense icicle, 

 through the centre of which the water descended, producing a 



