. The Yorkshire coast and the Cleveland hills and dales;. g of the ironstone. The two constituentbrooklets of the Mirk Esk, the Eller Beck and theWheeldale Beck, have their juncture at Beck Holes ;and, if we trace the former to the left, by its stonyway, often called Goathland Dale, shadowed by thetrees, we reach Thomasine Foss, where, in a delightfulscene, the waters dash in a silvery torrent through arocky cleft and over a precipice into a deep pool,about which the Osmunda regalis grows profusely, andwhere the scars are shadowed by foliage and clothedwith trailing greenery. Water Ark and Wal
. The Yorkshire coast and the Cleveland hills and dales;. g of the ironstone. The two constituentbrooklets of the Mirk Esk, the Eller Beck and theWheeldale Beck, have their juncture at Beck Holes ;and, if we trace the former to the left, by its stonyway, often called Goathland Dale, shadowed by thetrees, we reach Thomasine Foss, where, in a delightfulscene, the waters dash in a silvery torrent through arocky cleft and over a precipice into a deep pool,about which the Osmunda regalis grows profusely, andwhere the scars are shadowed by foliage and clothedwith trailing greenery. Water Ark and Walk MillFoss are other falls in the same glen ; and FriarsHouse and Abbot House remain to remind the way-farer of the ancient cell of Whitby where once Osmundand his brethren prayed for the health of the soul ofQueen Matilda, and entertained the poor through thebenefaction of Henry I. This brook has its sourcein a number of rills among the swelling heather ofGoathland Moor; and to a similar beginning in theheights of Glaisdale and Wheeldale Moors we might. 2;o < aa 12! ?J< < a < o o o a zI—I «: o Lower Eskdale 91 trace the Wheeldale Beck, through a somewhat richerwoodland, and by Nelly Ayre Foss and MalyansSpout, by which last a tributary rill descends nearly ahundred feet into the sylvan ravine. The waterfallsof Cleveland, to be seen at their best, should be visitedafter heavy rains, when, indeed, with their flashingwaters and mossy rocks set in the tenderest of greens,they present most tempting subjects for the the left bank of the Wheeldale Beck is the tinyhamlet of July (or Julian) Park, so called from a deer-park of the De Mauleys of Mulgrave which was here,and whereof the dyke is still traceable, as is also theRoman road upon the neighbouring moor Mere is a lonely pool in a hollow near site of the castle of St. Julian, a hunting seat ofthe De Mauleys, to which perhaps a hospice wasattached, St. Julian being the patron of wayfa
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