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and not interesting botanically. Prom Heathpool to Wooler, 

 some 5 miles, the north flank of the Cheviot mass is guarded 

 by the series of bell-shaped hills to which we have previously 

 referred. In order, from west to east, they are called Newton 

 West Tor (1762 feet), Newton East Tor, Tevering BeU (1182 

 feet), Akeld Hill, and Humbledon Heugh (977 feet). At their 

 base the country is almost a dead flat, so that they are con- 

 spicuous from a great distance and conimand an extensive view, 

 north-eastward to St. Abb's Head and the Berwickshire hills, 

 northward to the Lammermuirs,. westward up the Tweed Yalley, 

 past the Eildons, to the loftier hills round the head of Ettrick, 

 Liddesdale, and Teviotdale. The Caldgate stream joins the Till 

 within a mile of Wooler. At Doddington the latter receives a 

 rivulet, called Hetton Burn, from the sandstone ridge on the 

 west, upon which is a small waterfall. The Glen and Till unite 

 at Ewart, and from this point, or further down, when the even- 

 ing sun is sinking behind, is, we think, the finest view of the 

 Cheviots. The mass rises up clearly defined from the level 

 country, the rounded tors in front, and behind them the higher 

 hills over Langlee-ford and Southernknow, and highest of all, 

 the great ridge of Cheviot itself, and the slightly lower rounded 

 summit of Hedgehope. Past castles and villages famous in 

 history and border story, the Till flows with many windings 

 northward. The last low swell, crested with fir trees, where 

 the hill -country sinks into the plain, is Elodden Edge, and 

 that rich corn-land at its base is Branxton Lea. The castles 

 and parks of Twizell, Etal, and Pord pleasantly diversify the 

 last 5 miles of the stream, which joins the Tweed 10 miles be- 

 low Ewart. 



This district measures about 20 miles long by from 10 to 15 

 miles broad, and is about 250 square miles in area, of which the 

 Cheviot mass occupies more than one-third. 



ALTITUDES. 



(Those marked with a star are communicated by Sir Henry 

 James, Director -General of the Ordnance Survey, the others 



