110 peesident's addkess. 



Snout; thence four proceeded onwards, with excellent guides 

 in Mr. F. Spence and Professor Potter, to High Cup Nick, and 

 the remainder returned to High Force by Falcon Glints and 

 Langdon Beck. The second day six re-visited the Snout and 

 Falcon Clints in charge of Mr. Spence, five in charge of the 

 President followed the Tees from the Force to Langdon Beck, 

 wliilst other three confined themselves to the neighbourhood of 

 the Falls. 



What Botanist can ever forget the sweet pyramids of snowy 

 Hawthorn, or fields strangely gay with Geranium sylvaticum 

 (not pratense) that greeted us between Middleton and High 

 Force ; the meadows yellow with Globe-flower between High 

 Force and Langdon Beck ; the open moor brightly diapered with 

 the Cystus or Bock-rose and Wild Pansy as Cauldron Snout w^as 

 reached ; the streamlets fringed with the charming Bird's-eye 

 Primrose, tufts of Bladder-fern, and Black and Green Spleen- 

 wort ; the bogs starred with witching Saxifrages ; or the sharply 

 sloping fells, with their nodding lieads of Cotton-grass, that lay 

 beyond the Snout ? 



Who can ever forget the first morning peep up the fir-clad 

 and buttressed avenue to the foaming waters of High Force; — 

 the view, after the toll-bar is passed, over the lake-like AVheal 

 away to Cross Fell and its big neighbours ; — the curious mixture 

 of feelings as one looks down from the little bridge on the mad 

 waters rushing down that giant staircase called Cauldron Snout ; 

 or above all, that marvellous panorama that opens out so magi- 

 cally when the head of High Cup Nick is reached and the valley 

 of Eden lies spread at one's feet ? 



AVhat Geologist can see the organ-like crags by Holwick ; the 

 castellated avenue to High Force : or the long serrated line of 

 the Falcon Clints ending at Cauldron Snout ; still less that 

 wondrous V-shaped cleft at High Cup Nick, showing on each 

 side the dark, columnar basalt with horizontal bands of lime- 

 stone over and underlying it, and isolated stacks and chimneys 

 fringing its outcrop, and forget it ? 



Who wants to forget the exquisite pleasure when the first 

 patch of Bog Asphodel was sighted or the curious Moonwort 



