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name of Cheviot especially belongs, is most easily reached from 

 the town by following the high-road np the Wooler Water to 

 Langlee-ford, by way of Earl, a distance of 5 miles. The high 

 ridge is about a mile long, the western end, round what is called 

 the Dunsdale Cairn, a peaty swamp, the slightly higher eastern 

 caii'n drier. The "Wooler "Water rises on the back of this ridge 

 in a depression which runs south of the ridge over into Henhole. 

 Two miles above Langlee-ford there is a small waterfall called 

 Hartside Linn, above which the ravine is bare and monotonous. 

 The highest points of Cheviot and Hedgehope are not more than 



2 miles apart, and the steepness of the ravine which separates 

 them may be best understood from the fact that the Langlee-ford 

 farm-house, which is nearly in a direct line between the two 

 peaks, is 1600 feet in level below the one, and nearly 1900 feet 

 below the other. But there is very little crag upon the sides of 

 this ravine, and very soon after leaving the house in climbing 

 upwards we pass out into open moory ground, leaving all trees 

 and enclosures behind. We could only see thirty-five plants 

 upon the hill at an elevation of upwards of 2000 feet, and of 

 these we have already given a list. The Langlee-ford farm- 

 house is 400 feet above "Wooler, 750 feet above sea-level. Por 



3 miles below it the stream runs down a fine ravine, from which 

 the hills rise sharply to a height of from 1500 feet to 1000 feet 

 above it on both sides, the lower part of their sides being some- 

 what wooded, the trees being principally birch, oak, rowan, and 

 hawthorn, and the flat one continuous alder-grove. Over the 

 ridge on the east of the stream the level declines directly towards 

 Roddam and Ilderton. The hill just above Langlee-ford is 

 crowned by a craggy crest (Langlee Crags), and the flanks of 

 this lower part of the ravine are frequently covered with loose 

 rocks. These faces of hill, or rather the heaps of loose porphy- 

 ritic boulders that cover them, are characteristic of the district. 

 From the south-west side of this glen it is several miles across to 

 the series of rounded bell-shaped "tors" that form the southern 

 flank of the range above Yevering and Akeld, and the interven- 

 ing space is filled up by a heathery plateau, which is considerably 

 lower in level than the tors which girdle it. Riaht through 



