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an unclouded sky and bright sunshine, comprehends one of the 

 must magnificent hill scenes possible. The day for the clearness 

 of the horizon was one in a thousand. Afar off, at the extreme 

 limit, rose Thirlmoor with its three cairns opposite Coquet Head, 

 the descent leads on to Harbottle, to Holystone, to the gap across 

 to Elsdon, terminating with the swelling heights of Tosson and 

 Simonside. Diverging from Linnshiels springs up another frame 

 work on the north, in the Biddleston ranges, Silverton Hill, the 

 Black Buts, Hazelton E,ig, the Camphill above Alnham, Hogden, 

 and Cushat Law, with Hedgehope's transverse face, and lower 

 down the Middleton Crags. It was all very dreary, but under 

 the animation imparted by the pure air, and the absence of 

 business, most salutary and exhilarating. 



We are now on Lorbottle Moor ; the great, brown, heathery, 

 and boggy waste is dimpled with inequalities ; there are deep- 

 mosses and quagmires in it, dangerous to unwary sportsmen on 

 horseback ; the upper selvage, however, evinces dryness, as there 

 is more Leucohryum glaucum on it than Sphagnum. Some stone- 

 folds visible in the distance on the moor are called Prince's 

 House ; from one Prince who lived there. The Ooe or Roughly 

 Crags that present such prominent and even grand features like 

 those of giants in repose when seen sideways from the Edlingham 

 Newtown side are here tamed down by the shadows when we 

 look them fair in the face ; and even the next tier of rocks, the 

 Long Crag, that looks so bold and imposing from the Coe Crags 

 are sombre drawn up masses here, like a tame boundary wall 

 between the steep slopes at their feet, and a brown heathery 

 moor behind. 



The first observations of the Naturalists were made here. 

 Numbers of Sparkler Beetles, Cicinclela campestris, were extremely 

 active in running about along the sheep tracks, induced by the 

 sunshine to issue from their holes in quest of prey. Their readi- 

 ness to take wing to escape capture was amusing. Several of 

 the Wood Tiger Moth [Chelonia Plantaginh) were sluggishly 

 flying about, having just escaped from their cocoons. The three 

 cairns, called by Mr Scott, "watch-towers," are neither more 

 nor less than " tombs," 



" In which some ancient chieftain finds rejiose 

 Among- the lonely mountains." 



Several of their bases were mantled with luxuriant Vaccmium 

 Vitis l(l(m (Cowberry). The first and most capacious had been 

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