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part of the stream are called Bleakhope and Shillmoor. Due 

 soutt of the peak of Hedgehope, on a little side-stream from this 

 northern ridge, is Linhope Spout, the finest waterfall of the dis- 

 trict. High up on the bare hill-side, 500 feet above Eeveley, 

 the waters of this little burn fall over a brown porphyritic crag 

 50 feet in depth into a deep basin, and as the directories tell us, 

 ' ' the cataract is sometimes called the Eoughton Linn, from the 

 great noise made by the fall of the water when the stream is 

 full." "Where the road from Branton to Wooler crosses it, this 

 northern spur is only 550 feet in elevation. A lower ridge of hill 

 than that of which we have been speaking runs between the 

 Breamish and the head of the Aln. The peaks between Alnham 

 and Ingram are Cochrane Pike (1096 feet) and the Grey Yade of 

 Coppal (900 feet) ; and the highest point of the road west of 

 Glanton is 500 feet. At Branton, where this main stream enters 

 the flat cultivated country, the character of these Cheviot rivu- 

 lets, in their short stage of transition from hill-burns to low- 

 country streams, is well shown. They spread out into broad 

 shallow channels, with beds full of pebbles and rounded boulders 

 of porphyritic rock, with wild roses, broom, furze, and bushes of 

 Salix purpurea scattered over the flat and dry -loving plants 

 amongst their sandy borders, Galium verum, lotus, harebell, 

 AnthyUis, Reseda luteola, and Malva moschata, and in the thin 

 bare places Trifolium arvense, Filago minima, and Aira cary- 

 ophyllea. Opposite Eglingham the distance from the hill-spur 

 on the north to that on the south is not more than 2 miles. 

 South of the E.eveley ridge, on the east slope of Hedgehope, is a 

 depression in the Cheviot mass, down which two small streams, 

 Boddam burn and Lilburn, run down to join the Till, the former 

 with a pleasant wooded dene. From the sandstone ridge there 

 are no streams of any consequence entering the Till south of 

 Chatton, where it turns more to the west, till it receives the 

 branch which is called sometimes the Caldgate Burn and some- 

 times the "Wooler Water. The town of Wooler is situated on 

 the very outskirts of the Cheviot mass on a rather steep sloj)e, 

 the main street being about 300 feet above sea-level and the 

 bridge 50 feet lower. The highest mass of hill, to which the 



