And North Ridings. 7

" AND NORTH RIDINGS. 7 The eaat MOORL.oI.NDi'I of the N orth form the lICCUre harlxnuof Kinglton, which, Riding form a peculiar feature in the coun from this river, is generally called Hull. try, being Wholly detached fr<¥I1 the moun The lea coast of the North and East tains in the west. Some points of the east Ridings of Yorkshire is very extensive, and MOORLANDS rise nearly 900 feet above the affords several secure harbours;-The bar· level of the sea; but the most remarkable bours of Hull, Scarborough, Whitby, and summit uf the whole is Roseberry Topping, Bridlington, are described under their ap d~cribed at page 522 of this volumc. propriate heads in this volume, to which By its detached position and superior eleva may blI added the Day of Filey and Robin tion, it commands in all directions a prospect Hood's Bay. at once extensive and interesting. The hill The Minerals of the North-Riding con. rests on a basis of alum rock, interspersed sist chiefly of the alum mines, on the.coast with iron-stone, and its pinnacled summit of Whitby, as mentioned at pages 416 and indicates to the surrounding country the 574 of this volume, and the lead mines in approaching change in the weather, as ex Swaledale, Rnd the neighbouring vallies. pressed in the following metrical proverb- as described at page 555. About the middle " When Rosebcrry Topping wears a cap, ofthe last century copper of good quality was produced near Middleton Ty35, but I< Let Cleveland then beware of a clap." the works have been for some years dis Along the whole length of the N orth continued. Copper was also discovered, Riding, from west to east, the country is about five and t\Venty years ago, at Rich bounded by the river Tees. Thili river, mond, bnt it does not appear that the dis rising iR. the mountains of Westmoreland covery has ever yet tended to any profitable and Cumberland, pursues a very direct result. The same observation applies to the course into the German ocean, below iron-stone, whIch may be found in the east Stockton, whei"e it spreads out into the MOORLAND; though it should seem, from estuary of Redcar, three miles in breadth. ancient records, that as early as the 13th The Tees is navigable for ships of 60 tons century, iron was wrought and forged in burthen, up to Stockton, but the channel is Hosedale; Ayton is the only p:ace in the serpentine and intricate, and the current North-Riding where forges have been ~ rapid. A few incrmsiderable streams from tablished in modern times, and even these thll westemmoors fall into theriver Tee£, but have now totally uisappeared, from thu the great body of the waters ef Yorksbire difficulty of procuring fueL Various parts flow in the opposite dirClltion, and their of this Ritling produce coal, particu~ course, from their rise to their termination lady the plain between Easingwold and in the Humber, is described in pages vii and Thirsk, and the west MOORLA.NDS; but the viii of the first vulume of this work. The latter is of an inferior quality, and fit only Derwent rises in the eastern moors of for the burning of lime. Good free-stone the North-Riding, within about four miles for building, appears in many parts of the from the sea, and taking a southerly direc Riding; and stone-quarries are worked both tion through the romantic valley of Hack ill thc neighbourhood of Scarborough amI ness, runs in a line almost parallel with the Whitby, from whence are drawn the massil'lI coast, till it comes to the foot of the Wolds ; blocks used in the ronstruction oC the pielll it then takesa wlI,terly direction, and having at these ports. Lime-stone, and a speeiCll received the Rye, from Hemsley, passes by of marblc, not inferior to that of Derby the borough of Malton, to whieh it is navi shire, are found in the vale of the Greta. gable for vessels of twenty-five tons bur near Rokeby, and large blocks of red then, It is the boumiary between the North granite are seen on the surface in eertain Bnd East Ridings, from its junction with parts of the West MOORLANDS. the small river Hertford, till it approache.o In the East-Riding chalk is the priDo Starnfard Bridge, where it enters the East cipal mineral sublitance.-Near the coast it Riding, and falls into the Ouse,. near the extends from Hessle, on the banks of the village of Bannby, about three miles Bnd a Humber, its southern extremity, to Reigh half above How!!en. In the e?st MOOR ton, 10 miles south of Scarborough, iIB LANDS of the North-Riding ri.;es the Eske, northern boundary. The chalk rocks Which, after watering the dale to which it always (-,ontain large quantities of water. gives name, fonns the inner haroour of which may be had by boring or sinking. Whitby, and is there lost in the Gennan even at a considerable distance from the hills. ocean. The small river Hull traverses the Many large springs break out along the East-Riding from north to south, visiting eastern edge of the chalk. generally in the Driffield and Beverley in its course, and at gra\'el which covers it. Thll river Hull is itli iuJlux into the Humber contributes to formed by the united wateI'll of a numberof.

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