Report of Meetings for 1889. By Dr. J. Hardy. 447 



We turn up Greenshaw Hill burn- side, where an old-fashioned 

 cart with wooden axle that was wrecked here when crossing the 

 ford, still lies to testify the former rough and dangerous state of 

 the roads. It has been drawn for illustration by Mr H. P. 

 Taylor. 



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" AT THK FORD." 



Most of the carriages were left below Greenshaw Hill. At 

 this retired farm-place culture and green fields re-appeared. 

 Apple trees were flowering in the gardens ; good rye-grass and 

 clover covered the enclosures. Higher up still, Hartside 

 cottages were in good order, with slated roofs. There was a fine 

 display here of blossoming Bird-cherry in the garden hedge. 

 The ground hained or cultivated for hay for winter food to the 

 stock is" very superior to that at Milkhope and that at Blindburn, 

 and other sheep farms in Upper Coquetdale, where the soil is so 

 scanty and the climate so severe, that only a thin wiry herbage, even 

 although the entire home manure is applied to it, can be forced to 

 to grow. From this platform there opened out a spacious amphi- 

 theatre within the hollow of the hills. Cheaters and Prend wick's 

 paley-hued pastures, dark Hogden with its peaked and cairned top 

 with Ewartly Shank, a new and clean looking shepherd's house, 

 in its bosom ; Alnham Moor in an angle of the Breamish below 

 the " Shank," came in view. Breamish sweeps round the 

 low hill (Meagrim) in front of us up to Linhope Cottage or farm, 

 where Linhope burn enters it on the right at a bridge, and 

 Breamish then wheels round a grassy-edged, flat heather-topped 

 hill, where a new game-keeper's house has recently been erected, 



