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TATE : THE MALHAM DRY RIVER BED. 
cascade," described by Hurtley, descended to the foot of the Cove, a 
distance of two hundred and fifty feet. The semicircle of limestone 
cliffs, some seventy yards across, may be traversed along a ledge or 
natural terrace, about eighteen yards up the face of the Cove. " The 
tints and colouring of the Cove as it appears at present, are naturally 
the softest and most elegant that can be conceived. The Rock is 
silver-grey, delicately although irregularly striped with lines of dark 
hue, occasioned by the streams of water falling from the Sa.m Sedilia 
or shelves in various places and directions ; and the entire Mass is 
embroidered and interspersed with shrubs and evergreens, forming 
together by a variety of shades and features, an Alcove and Landscape 
the most splendid and picturesque." (Hurtley). 
(No. 9) Water Cavern at the foot of Malham Cove, whence 
emerges a portion of the water disappearing at the sinks. In the 
foreground is Malham Beck which, lower down, is joined by Gordale 
Beck and (after receiving the water from Airehead Springs) the 
Otterburn to form the River Aire. 
(No. 10) Map of Dry Valley. Reduced from Ordnance Sheet 
No. 133, showing : — 
(ct) The station and direction of each photograph. 
{b) The geological evidences of the Craven Fault. 
Botanists may be interested to learn that the following are 
among the rarer plants observed hereabout : — Trollius europcBus, 
Adcea spicata, Draha muralis, llilaspi alpjestre, Hutch insia petrcea, 
[lelianthemum canuui, Geranium sanguineum^ Potentilla alpestris, 
P^rus aria, Bhjswus compressus, Sesleria cceruJeay Polijpodium cal- 
careum, Aspenium viride, Eqidsetum hyemale, Verrucaria Malhamensis, 
and Lecidea rihidula. 
Bibliography. 
Harrison (1577). Description of Britaine. 
Camden (1590). Britannia, p. 559. 
Hurtley (1786). Concise Account of some Natural Curiosities in 
the environs of Malham, p. 34. 
Whitaker (1805). Craven, p. 206 : 3rd ed., p. 267. 
Phillips (1836). Geology of Yorkshire, pt. ii., p. 162. 
