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These tributary streams or becks are sometimes several miles 

 long, originating among the hills, forming deep valleys, and 

 generally disgorging on the Yore valley by sudden waterfalls or 

 'forces' of great height and beauty. The breadth of the main 

 valley is also extensive, and very flat, excepting here and there 

 where large mounds of moraine matter have been left in mid 

 valley, the Yore passing on one side or other of the alluvial or 

 glacial heaps which, being generally covered with trees, give 

 variety and break up the otherwise monotonous flat through 

 which the Yore's sometimes sluggish stream meanders ; for only 

 in one or two places did we see rocks in situ or anything ap- 

 proaching to a rapid in the upper part of the main valley. As 

 a rule the sides of the valley are covered with verdure, sloping 

 pastures partitioned off with long grey stone walls, the monotony 

 of which is only broken by the numerous barns built high up 

 on the valley sides, and a few farmsteads here and there, and 

 only a few plantations ; the latter becoming fewer and fewer as 

 the national greed for land and beef and mutton increases. Here 

 it may be remarked that the dale has nearly lost its reputation 

 for making good cheese. "We heard that some was still made at 

 some of the old farms which had not lost caste or character. But 

 the strong desire to have two crops in one year had generally 

 prevailed, and the consequent result is that some good butter is 

 sent to a ready market, and some bad cheese follows after, a kind 

 of Old Peg. "We saw a consignment of this kind being sent out 

 of the dale to Barnard Castle, where, I fear, some of it would be 

 at first sight taken by some of our own unfortunate excursionists 

 for " Cotherstone." 



"Hardrow was, after a few hours pleasant botanizing on old 

 stone walls, reached about mid-day. Preparations were going 

 on on a large scale for a monstrous excursion party and an up- 

 roarious band contest; so, after congratulating ourselves that 

 our visit was well timed, we entered the rocky gorge which had 

 been deeply cut through beds of sandstone and shale backward 

 in a winding course into the hill side. The fall cannot be seen 

 till you turn a corner, and then the white flowing Mare's Tail- 

 shaped fall of water comes at once into view. The small quantity 



