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On the Fringe of the Cleveland Hills. 



met with during the week-end, and, perhaps, by an attack of 

 acute carelessness on the part of some of those present. 



Three full da3^s' work were included in the programme, the 

 part}' on the Monday being only added to but slightly, on 

 account of the difficulty of reaching this out-of-the-way place 

 and getting away from it again in a single day. 



On Saturday Thimbleby was visited, and the journey 

 followed through Oakdale, and over ' Black Hambleton,' 

 which those who ascended it will be surprised to learn is not 

 more than 1249 ^^^^ height. A call was made at the Chequers 

 Inn, in order to see the peat fire, which is said to have been 



Phot6\ \R. Fortune, F.Z.S. 



' Poachers.' 



kept burning during the last two hundred years. It was found 

 to be alight, but burning in an early Victorian grate ! 



The foll6wing day was devoted to an examination of the 

 remains of the Carthusian Priory at Mount Grace, and the 

 woods adjoining. Within the walls of this interesting building 

 most of those present turned antiquary, and probably spent a 

 much more pleasant and profitable day than did any of the 

 Carthusian monks, each of whom was cribbed, cabined, and 

 confined within his little world of a few yards square. Around 

 the waUs were the usual medicinal and poisonous plants, so 



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