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and letting disquisition follow later. (Plate VI.) We 

 embark at New Bewick, in a Neolithic boat, upon a 

 winding, shallow strip or tongue of blue water, a quarter 

 mile wide at one place, and a short hundred yards at 

 another, till a half-mile's paddling, ending with a West- 

 ward turn, brings us opposite to East Lilburn Bay, on a 

 long arm of the Lake, narrowing Southward to a creek, 

 which receives Roddam Burn, and stretching Northwards 

 fiord-like for three miles, with steep shores rising into 

 rounded hills. Steering North down the middle of this 

 fiord — some half-mile wide — startling flocks of duck and 

 geese as we move, and noting the wild cattle on the 

 hills around Chillingham, whence a small creek joins the 

 fiord, we round a headland, and leaving Chatton Moor 

 behind us, enter a wider bay facing Westward, whose 

 long Northward branch receives the entering Hetton Burn 

 close by Hetton Hall. Then through a tortuous bit of 

 water with high shores between Weetwood Uill and 

 Fowberry grounds — though Weetwood Hall and Fow- 

 berry Tower are both beneath the waves — we emerge on 

 the Lake itself, the main broad water, and a splendid 

 sight it is, stretching due Westward to Kirknewton for 

 three miles, and North-westward to Etal for four miles. 

 Along its Southern shore range Humbleton, Akeld Hill, 

 and Yeavering Bell, showing one behind another in 

 succession, with the gleam of a white glacier between 

 the two former; higher Cheviots to the South-west, with 

 snowy summits ; Kilham Hill distant, and rather to the 

 right hand j Lanton, Milfield, and Flodden Hills flanking 

 the Western shore. Now with a fair breeze and hoisted 

 sail we speed up the middle of the Lake, with the 

 Eastern coast in view, unable to see Doddington village, 

 which -w^ould be just submerged, though Dod Hill stands 

 clear behind, nor Fenton, also below water; but Kim- 

 merston and its quarry are just above, and Ford Castle 

 stands at the very edge, mirrored in the bay. By this 

 time we should have passed across Lake Ewart. And why 



