The rivers of Great Britain, descriptive, historical, pictorical; rivers of the south and west coasts . r in the Irish Sea as with the Kibble, the Lune, andthe many minor streams that diversify Morecambe Bay. Thewhole extent of this corner of the Xorth-^Yest Riding is wild,^-^^ open country, with diverging dales lost in fading distances:stone walls for leafy hedges, and limitless grazing uplandsclothed with the herbage peculiar to unwooded elevations of overtwo thousand feet. In the blithe springtime, when the tender flushof green proclaims the renewed life-blood of the grass ; in the summer p
The rivers of Great Britain, descriptive, historical, pictorical; rivers of the south and west coasts . r in the Irish Sea as with the Kibble, the Lune, andthe many minor streams that diversify Morecambe Bay. Thewhole extent of this corner of the Xorth-^Yest Riding is wild,^-^^ open country, with diverging dales lost in fading distances:stone walls for leafy hedges, and limitless grazing uplandsclothed with the herbage peculiar to unwooded elevations of overtwo thousand feet. In the blithe springtime, when the tender flushof green proclaims the renewed life-blood of the grass ; in the summer prime,?when the umbers and greys of prolonged heat are faintly changing the broad facesof the untrodden mountains and silent valleys; and in winter, when all is white withunsullied snow, this exjjanse of billowy hill and fell has a grandeur all its features are repeated under a more striking development by-and-by in Lake-land, but this is the crowning point of the great backbone of picturesque highlandwhich, beginning in Derbyshire, defines nmch of the boundary of Yorkshire The RiHBLE is one of the rivers which take their rise from the Ingleboroughand Whernside heights. It is a babbling brook as it is seen by the railway travellerat Ribblehead, but the source must be sought in one of the rills that tumble downthe shoulders of Wold Fell. The difficulty usually encountered in tracing amountain-born river to the precise bubble of water that may without hesitation bepronounced its source is intensified here. So miich depends upon circumstances inthese matters. After a rainless month in summer, the wayfarer would note a water- FIVERS OF (WEAT BlUTATX. [ThK RiBllLE
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