86 A NEW FLOfiA OF 



FEET. 



Great Midding Hill, Ed- 



lingham 882* 



Tosson Hill, Simonside ... 1447* 



Ravenslieugli Crags 839* 



Rufflaw, Long Horsley ... 597 



FEET. 



Junction of Roads half a 



mile south of Netherton 683* 



Rothbury Church 279* 



Felton Bridge 93* 



Forest Burn Toll-bar 493* 



5. WANSBECK DISTEICT. 



The numerous east-flowing streams which join to form the 

 Wansbeck come from a tract which, from Simonside towards the 

 Tyne, stretches for 10 or 12 miles through the heart of the 

 county, a tract of very thinly-inhabited low grassy moorish 

 country, the ridges running west and east, not more than from 

 600 to 800 feet in elevation, with very little crag upon them, 

 but often covered with plantations of Scotch fir, spruce, and 

 larch, and the hollows in various stages of transition between 

 pasture and grassy moor. The northern fork rises in Bodle 

 Moss, on the southern slope of Simonside, and joins a streamlet 

 from Darden Eig to form the Font. Amongst the swamps of 

 the upper part of this branch the Andromeda grows ; and Chart- 

 ner's Lough, a little mountain tarn near the head of the northern 

 fork, is the station for JVujpJtar intermedium. This drains the 

 country between Long Horsley and Elsdon, and is the most 

 wooded fork of the river, flowing from the moors south-east- 

 ward past Nunnykirk, Netherwitton, Pigdon "Woods, and JS'ew- 

 ton Park, to join the main stream at Mitford. The next fork 

 comes from the east slope of the Ottercaps and the moors round 

 Catcherside and Harwood. It is a small fir plantation just north 

 of the railway, near the head of one of the branches of this fork, 

 that yields the Linncea. Eothley Lake is a tarn amplified by 

 artificial means at the head of another branch, and lower down 

 are Eothley Castle and Hartburn Grange. The main branch be- 

 gins 2 miles eastward of Eeedsmouth and flows through Sweet - 

 hope Lough, a moorland tarn said to cover 180 acres, with 

 swamps round it of T^/pJia, Carex ampullacea, and Sparganium 

 rmnosum, to Kirkwhelpington, south of which the basalt crops 

 out prominently in Thockrington and Bavington Crags, the only 



