364 EUaOPEAN RIVEKS. P" 
ami chiofiy runs to the south-east. The 
rises in the hills near the soutli-west extremity o 
-where it is called .the Sheaf, and running to ,, 
until it reaches Sheffield, turns to the uoitb ‘ i/'' 
into the Ouse. The Calder has its source m 
Lancashire, and entering tlie south-west viil'! 
runs eastward, and joins the river Aire. 
from the foot of a high hill, called 
.slow course, chiefly to the eastward, dischar^ tl j,, 
the Ouse. The Wh arse or Wherse, rises am^ ^ 
in the west of Yorkshire, and flows wi b falk , 
impetuous current, chiefly to the south-east, 
the Ouse. The Swale rises among the nou 
Yorkshire, and 
le aw ALE rises UUJU115 — . jpj 
1 , running to the south-east, J j 
les below Boroughbridge. 
about four miles below Boroughbridge. ^ fli^ 
■which divides the North and East Ridings, . . ji 
east part of Yorkshire, near tire sea-coast, be 
and Scarborough, and first runnmg m the s ri 
the west, and again to ihe soutili, falling a ^ 
Onsc. The river Hull has its source m 
whence it nins chiefly to the southwarn, » 
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Beverley, and falls into the Humber. 
rivers a great number of rivulets discharge to 
The Humber is formed at the confluen ^.[,311 
and may rather be considered as a narrow “ 
being throughout its short course of „iiis^'7 /j 
Its whole extent to Spumhead, “ 
leiminates Yorkshire to the so, nth-east, 
thirty-six miles. By one of the rivers 
Yorkshire partaxes, nowevci, u. 
from the great modern improvement, can ^ 
nication has been made between the w ^ 
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nication nas ueeu ujciuo 
coasts, across Lancashire and Yorkshire, to ‘di)'’.;*' 
proceeds from the river Mersey, at Liverp J' 
at Selby, sixteen miles above 3'inction ' ^^.bri -u d 
It crosses the county of York, from i „.issii'& |r«‘y 
miles north-west of Skipton, to the 0 “^®’ 1 “? -j/ 
and has two subordinate branches, one tea ja 
and another to the vicinity of WakefieU . 
communication between that place and 
