Mr. HoRNFR Oft the Mhieralogy of the Malvern Hills. 283 



termed the End-hill. Where the Herefordshire Beacon falls back 

 to the westward, occurs a wide, and in some places thickly wooded, 

 valley, in the bottom of which is situated the retired village of 

 Little Malvern. All these vallies run from west to east, and gra- 

 dually widen as they descend. There are none parallel to the direc- 

 tion of the chain. 



§ 6. In Nash's History of Worcestershire, the highest point of 

 the Malvern Hills is said to be 1313 feet above the level of the 

 Severn at Hanley. In the table lately published of the altitudes 

 taken in the course of the Ordnance Survey in different parts of Eng- 

 land, the height of the Malvern Hills above the level of the sea is stated 

 at 1444 feet. I am informed by Lieut. Col. Mudge that the parti- 

 cular hill to which this measurement refers, is that situated in the 

 centre of the range, the Herefordshire Beacon. I had not an op- 

 portunity of ascertaining the height of this hill above the adjacent 

 plain ; I obtained however that of the Worcestershire Beacon and 

 of the North-hill. The instrument I made use of was Sir Henry 

 Englefield's portable barometer, and the following are the results of 

 my observations. My lowest station was at the north-eastern ex- 

 tremity of the common, called the Links, from which point there 

 is almost a dead level to the banks of the Severn. 



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The Worcestershire Beacon (by the mean of three obser- 

 vations) 1238 



The North-hill (by the mean of two observations) . . 1151 

 The road before the door of the Crown-hotel, in Great 



Malvern (by the mean of three observations) . . . 273 



As the right bank of the Severn, at the termination of the plain 



from which these measurements are calculated, is between sixty and 



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