2 Mr. Nixon on the Measurement {by Trigonometry) of the 



troughs of the Eden and the Swale, it would at once be ad- 

 mitted that our signal, raised on the extreme summit of the 

 hill, stood on the precise line of division between the two 

 counties, and that the standards, placed a quarter of a mile to 

 the north-west on ground considerably lower, were unequivo- 

 cally within Edendale; but on descending the east side of the 

 hill, we should discover that a stream, deriving its supplies 

 principally from ground in the direction of the standards, 

 divides and pours its waters into both valleys. To fix perma- 

 nently a boundary evidently debateable, has no doubt led to 

 the building of these numerous and enormous pikes. To pre- 

 vent the destruction of the second signal, recesses were made 

 within two of its opposite sides, each furnished with a stiff 

 card, on which was explained (in pencil, to avoid obliteration) 

 the occasion of its erection. From the effects of a similar 

 jealousy the measurement of the heights of the Dent Hills, 

 commenced in 1824, at which period the boundaries between 

 Dent and Newbyhead were in dispute, was obliged to be 

 abandoned for two years; the signals within the contested 

 ground being regularly destroyed, though repeatedly renewed, 

 and every particle of the materials removed from the place. 



The inferior hills of Swaledale not included in the survey, 

 are the following. 1 . West Stonesdale Moor ; the loftiest 

 eminence on the boundary ridge between the Nine Standards 

 and the pass at Tanhill. 2. Angrain Moor ; one of the many 

 ridges of which Shunnor Fell is the common crest; eligible 

 for measurement or otherwise, according as the ridge previous 

 to its termination in a knab is interrupted by a depression, or 

 more probably forms one continuous declivity. 3. Windyates ; 

 a transverse bank of the boundary ridge (crossed by the road 

 from Askrigg to Reeth), inferior in altitude to either High 

 Fleak or Pickington Ridge, between which it is situated with- 

 out the intervention of a regular pass, but well known from 

 the bold cliff of the top or twelve-fathom lime at its southern 

 extremity. 4. Mirk Fell; partly in Teesdale, a dependent of 

 and considerably lower than Water Crag, from which it is 

 scarcely sufficiently distinct to merit a separate appellation. 

 5. Healaugh Crag ; a mass of grit rock breaking the uni- 

 formity of a broad ridge falling from Great Pinch Yate, in the 

 direction of the village of Feetham. 6°. Windegg; a slight 

 cliff of the twelve-fathom lime at its termination on the boundary 

 ridge under the grit of the Hoove. 6. Hurst Moor: and 7. 

 Fremington Edge; together forming a lofty escarpment of the 

 same and other limes on the left bank of the Arkle. From the 

 Hoove to Freminfjton the eastern ridge of Arkendale is one 

 uninterrupted and nearly uniform descent, possessing no other 



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