HUGHES : IXGLEBOROUGH. 
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(Plate XXII). It is the bold bluff that travellers from 
Lancaster northwards see on the north and east standing out like 
a huge citadel in front of the fells of the West Riding. It is 
the great brown flat-topped mass along the eastern flanks of which 
the Settle and Carlisle Railway climbs, giving the traveller a final 
view of its northern slopes just before he plunges into the great 
tunnel near the source of the Ribble. 
Ribblesdale, Chapel-le-dale, and the valley of the Wenning, 
almost enclose the mass that may be referred to Ingleborough. 
Its base spreads over an area of about 30 square miles. It rises 
Fig. ]. 
THE PLAIN OF THE HOWGILL FELLS SEEN FROM THE WEST SLOPE OF 
INGLEBOROUGH. 
Showing the sea-plain at about 2,00 D feet above sea-level. 
2,373 feet above the sea — which is seen from its summit opening 
out on the south-west in Morecambe Bay, between the Claughton 
Fells and the lower hills of Arnside and Grange. 
Turning the other way, we see that it is one of many similar 
masses which close up to form the Great Plateau of the West 
Riding, Whernside and Penyghent being isolated and forming 
mountains more or less resembling Ingleborough, while Widdle and 
Dod are less completely hewn out. Only one summit dominates 
Ingleborough, namely, the hog-backed Whernside, which rises -il 
feet higher. 
The hummocky mass of the Howgill Fells rises to about 
the same elevation (Fig. 1), and, carrying our eye along 
the sky-line further west, we see range after range reaching the 
