282 Mr. Horner on the Mineralogy of the Malvern Hilts. 



prominent hills are situated nearly close together at the northern 

 extremity ; of these, that which is farthest south is called the 

 Worcestershire Beacon, and is the highest of the two ; the name of 

 the other is the North-hill. 



§ 4. On the eastern side, the hills rise at a considerable angle, 

 from a level plain that stretches fo the banks of the river Severn, a 

 distance of between three and four miles. On the western side, 

 the ascent is more gradual, and the country for several miles to the 

 westward is formed of a succession of small hillocks which are 

 covered to their tops with coppice w^ood : the longitudinal bearing of 

 these, is in general parallel to that of the range. There is a very 

 extensive and beautiful view from the top of the Malvern hills, and 

 the different appearances of the two sides present a very remarkable 

 contrast : on the one hand, the widely extended plain of Worcester- 

 shire stretching for many miles to the eastward, the continued level 

 of which is only here and there interrupted by small wooded emi- 

 nences rising in detached spots ; on the other hand, a constant 

 succession of rising ground, which is terminated by the distant Welsh 

 mountains. 



§ 5. The eastern side does not present the same continued slope 

 that extends on the western, from the summit to the base, but is 

 very much broken by narrow vallies or water courses that run at 

 right angles to the direction of the range. Besides these, there are 

 some vallies of more considerable extent : two of them are at the 

 northern extremity, the one separating the Worcestershire Beacon 

 from the North-hill, the other dividing this last from what is 



" parish, in which the greater part of it is situated, Colhvall, that is Collis Vallum. The 

 " whole circumference of it is two thousand nine hundred and seventy yards, the length 

 " one thousand one hundred yards. The whole camp contains forty-four statute acres." 

 Nash's History of Worcestershire. 



