XV. 
HOLDERNESS. 
External Configuration. -—-This is not quite so level a country as 
Yorkshiremen commonly imagine. It is full of small ridges and mounds, 
enclosed amidst tortuous marshes and fens, on the line of actual or 
ancient streams easily choked through the feebleness of their descent to 
the sea. The highest point, Dinlington height, is 159 feet above the sea. 
Internal Structure. — Excepting at Bridlington, where tertiary 
sands appear, gravelly clays and sands, supporting buried forests and 
lacustrine deposits, fill the vale of Holderness to a considerable depth, 
and rest upon the chalk of the Wolds. 
Aspect of Vegetation. — There is little of natural wood in Holder- 
ness ; yet its peat deposits are full of trees, some of which certainly 
grew on the spot. The Yew, Oak, Alder, Ash, Beech, Scotch Fir and 
Hazel, are the principal trees which occur in the peat. The sea line of 
Holderness extends for thirty miles, and is favorable in places for littoral 
vegetation. 
DISTRIBUTION OF PARTICULAR PLANTS. 
We only know of one plant (Euphorbia cyparissias) in this district 
which has not been found in other parts of Yorkshire, and there is some 
doubt whether this be really wild. 
SEA COAST. 
From the Tees’ mouth to Saltburn, the coast is guarded by loose 
sand hills ; thence to Scarborough, Filey and Bridlington, by an almost 
complete barrier of lofty and rugged precipices ; from Bridlington to 
Kilnsea, low and wasting clilFs prevail, and Spurn Point is a loose mass 
of drifted sand and gravel. 
The littoral plants found no 
lowing : — 
Lepidium raderale 
Cakile maritima 
Crambe maritima 
Brassica oleracea 
Arenaria peploides 
marina 
Cerastium tetrandrnm 
Eryngium maritimnm 
Artemisia maritima 
where else in Yorkshire, are the fol- 
Centanrea calcitrapa 
Carduus tenuifolius 
Statice limonium 
Hippopbae rbamnoides 
Salsola kali 
Salicornia herbacea 
Chenopodium maritimum 
Beta maritima 
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