CLITHEROE. 447 • mas day, and the 7th of December. Gas '11Jork'i were .established here in 1837", and the nu.mber of public la.mps in the borough is a.bout 65. The cost of the works amoun ted to nearly £3,000. In consequence ofthe accession oftrade to Clitheroe,the popula­ tion has increased amazingly since 1801, when the number ofinhabit­ ants according to the parliamentary return was only 1368; in 1811, the number was 1,767; in 1821, 3,213; in 1831, 5,213; in·1841, 6,765; and in 1851, 7.243, viz., 3,521 males, and 3,719 females. The Clitheroe Union embraces the following 34 townships, viz., Aighton, Bailey, and Chaigley; Bowland Little, Chatburn, Chipp­ ing, Clitheroe, Downham, Leagram, Mearley. Mitton Little, Pendle­ ton, Thornley-with-Wheatly, Twiston, Whalley, Wiswell, and Worston, ill Lancashire; Bashall Eaves, Bolton by Bowland. Bowland Higher Division of, Bowland Lower Division of, Bradford 'Vest, Easington, Gisburn, Gisburn Forest, Grindletoll, Horton, Middop, Mitton Great, Newsholme, Newton, Paythorne, Rim­ mingtol), Sawley, Sl:o\idburn, and Waddington, in Yorkshire; and contained in 1851, a. population of 22,367, viz. 11 ,461 males, and 10,906 females, and the number of inhabited houses in the same year was 4,237; uninhabited,247, and building, 25. Mr. Samuel Wood is clerk to the Union and superintendent registrar. The township contains 2,276 acres, and the principal owners of the soil are Le Gendre N. Starkie, 'Villiam Assheton, J. T. W. Aspinall, D. Robinson; and J. Garnett, E"sqs. A commanding eminence in this locality, 'Caned Pendle Hill, rears its lofty head 1803 feet above the level of the sea, and from~ its summit the views are very extensive. Dr. \Vluitaker says, " The crust of the earth appears to have undergone a violent disruption, in consequence of which the edges of the beds of the minerals are thrown up into the air and down towards the centre of the earth. At an angle of forty five degrees, immediately beyond this appear~ ance rise the huge mass of Pendle, which seems to have been thrown up by the same convulsion; and to the north again appears a surface of limestone, with its c;)ncomitant system of plants and minerals, which, had the strata to the south maintained their na.tural position, must have lain at a vast depth beneath." On the 18th of August, 1669, this elevation discharged such an.. immense lJody of water from near its top, as did great da'mage to the neighbouring country. It is described as a mighty torrent,­ "gustingo out in such quantities and so suddenly, that it made a breast a yard high, and GontiBued nmning for about two hours.'~ On the declivity of Pendle stood .~falkin tower, or Hoarstones, the rendezvous of the witcht.s of Pcndle Forest, where Dame Demdike and about three score other witches celebrated a solemn feast on All Saints' day, in 1633, and for their sorceries, seventeen.