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head of the Aln. The foreground in front of this wall-like ridge 

 consists of a broad space of comparatively low cidtivated country, 

 of which Alwinton, Alnham, and Eothbury are the limits, brown 

 fallows, bright-green fields of grain, duller green pastures and 

 meadows, very little wood, and what there is not in patches but 

 principally scattered trees in the hedgerows and along the streams, 

 the Coquet winding along the dale, sometimes hidden, sometimes 

 gleaming in the sunshine. To the east rises the heathery moor 

 which runs without a break from Eothbury northward to the 

 Aln, scattered over with edges of grey gritstone rock. The 

 western hill shuts out the view of the Harbottle fir- woods and 

 upper part of the Coquet valley, but on the right the long line 

 of coast from the Aln to the Tyne can be clearly seen ; and due 

 south a wide tract of low undulated moory country across the 

 Wansbeck and Tyne to Kilhope Law and the Durham fells, and 

 further west the similar valleys of the Eeed and North Tyne, 

 with the Lake hills far away over them on the distant horizon. 

 Eastward of Eothbviry the watershed ridge on both sides of the 

 valley declines rapidly, and soon assumes the character of low 

 cultivated country. On the south it is 600 feet in altitude above 

 Long Horsley, and on the north 473 feet at Shillmoor. Past 

 Brinkbum Priory, Pelton village, Acklington Park, and the 

 castle and priory of "Warkworth, margined often, like its neigh- 

 bour-streams the Aln and "Wansbeck, with steep wooded banks, 

 the Coquet flows with many windings to its mouth at Warkworth 

 Harbour. The total area of the district is about 250 square 

 miles. 



ALTITUDES. 



KEET. 



Chew Green Camps, Co- 

 quet Head 1436* 



Cushat Law 2019* 



^Veather Caii-u 1836* 



Cold Law, over Biddle- 



stone 1287* 



Point near Biddlestone 

 Edge Farm-house 800* 



FEET. 



Alwinton Chm-ch 505* 



Road three-quarters of a 



mile east of Sharperton 528* 



Ridlees Cairn 1346* 



Harden Hill 1038* 



Harbottle Lough 850 



Moor south of ditto 940 



HolyAvell, Holystone 430 



