peesident's address. 335 



The waterfalls near Hawes would be very pretty but for the 

 un sympathizing and unharmonious surroundings of the place. • 



'^We returned to Askrigg by train, and after dinner proposed 

 a vote of thanks to Mr. Home, who had so obligingly and so 

 well led our little party during the day, and the only source of 

 regret was that more of our members who enjoy these rambles 

 in the dales were not present to enjoy with us the beauties of 

 Upper Yoredale." 



The weather on Priday, June 26th, the third day of the" meet- 

 ing, was exceedingly fine. The members present, forming this 

 day one party, started in good time for a ramble over the hill 

 of Addleborough (an imposing eminence, rising to 1564 feet 

 above the sea, on the side of the Yalley of Ure opposite to Ask- 

 rigg) and thence on to the lake of Semmerwater. Crossing the 

 Ure to the village of "Worton, the highway along "Scar Top" 

 was followed to the village of Thornton Eust. " Scar Top" is 

 the summit of a precipitous crag of mountain limestone extend- 

 ing altogether some two miles in length and varying in height 

 in this distance from about twenty to forty feet. The highway 

 runs close along the top of the crag, being protected by a low 

 wall. Beneath the crag, upon the side of the hill sloping from 

 its base down to the meadows and pastures in the Valley of the 

 Ure, are some plantations of lofty trees ; and from the highway 

 on the top an extensive view is obtained, both up and down the 

 beautiful valley. Nappa Hall, visited on the 24th, is seen on 

 the opposite side of the valley. By following this route a more 

 gradual and easy ascent of Addleborough is obtained. There- 

 fore, having reached Thornton Eust, the party, as it were, 

 " doubled" back, striking across Thornton Eust Moor for Addle- 

 borough, which they had in fact gone past. On the moor above 

 Thornton Eust a view is obtained of Bolton Castle (some time, 

 as already mentioned, the prison of Mary Queen of Scots), three 

 or four miles down the dale. In a little stream on Thornton 

 Eust Moor a portion of a Crayfish was found. Crayfish, we 

 were informed, exist in considerable numbers and of large size 

 in the Ure and in many of its tributary streams. The Crayfish 

 found in this little stream, which could be easily stepped across 



