The rivers of Great Britain, descriptive, historical, pictorical; rivers of the south and west coasts . )|)er extremityof a dale to the south-east ofWharton, in Westmorland. This is aportion of the upheaved Lancashirecountry, however, that stands some--thing- midway between sea-level andthe summits of its best uplands and highlands of theearly course of the Lune rangebetween 500 feet and 1,000 feet,and the lower half isbelow the smaller course, however, isthrough a section of val-levs watered by innumer-able creeks, and kept inbounds by the Ion el \fells. Sometimes, as
The rivers of Great Britain, descriptive, historical, pictorical; rivers of the south and west coasts . )|)er extremityof a dale to the south-east ofWharton, in Westmorland. This is aportion of the upheaved Lancashirecountry, however, that stands some--thing- midway between sea-level andthe summits of its best uplands and highlands of theearly course of the Lune rangebetween 500 feet and 1,000 feet,and the lower half isbelow the smaller course, however, isthrough a section of val-levs watered by innumer-able creeks, and kept inbounds by the Ion el \fells. Sometimes, as atHowgill, there are fairyglens, and the occasionalintervals of fertile pas-tures and wooded levelsare a not ungratefulcontrast. On one of theplains of the Lune isKirkl)\ Lonsdale, the capital of a vale which ge.\smere {/>. 290). stretches away withlugleborough in the distancewith its momitainou been described on. The river courses round a half-circle, and the scene,ackground in the east, is particularly beautiful. 2S2 l!iyi:iiS OF GRKAT BRITAIN. [The Uxe. It is a rare kiinl of paiiiiraina for tliis part of the cciiiiitrv. riic radiatingvallovs in the Laiu-asliiro portion of the Limes course bring in the Cireta and theWenning. Tlie former nnist not be confomided witli the other Greta tliat is bornnear Helvellvn, nor with tlic trilnit;ir\ of the Tees in tlie Xortli Kidiiig, at tlie biidgeof which Nicholas Nicklebv, oUl Sijuccrs, and tlie wrctclied bovs were put downfrom the coach cu route to Dothebovs Hall. This (Jreta which is a tributary ofthe Lune is a rockv-bedded, brawling, rushing little stream, tumbling down fromWhernside. and. between Ingleborough and Ingleton Fells, finding its way through adale which is nuich visited for the sake of the roaring subterranean waterfall ofWethercote Cave, the chariniug surrouiidiiiLis of Ingleton \illage. and tlie caves andfells of Kingsdale valley. The W
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