. The earth and its inhabitants ... e north and south in narrowbands. Separated by the great fissure through which the Ouse and Trent find * Spenser, Faerie Queen. t W. Boyd Dawkins, Journal of the Geological Society, Feb., 1877. THE BASIN OF THE HUMBEE. 236 their way into the sea, the hills rise once more to the north of the estuary of theHumber, and, trending round to the eastward, terminate in the bold promontoryof Flamborough Head. To the north lie the wild and barren York Wolds,whose northern face is known as the Cleveland Hills. They are composed ofliassic strata capped by oolitic rocks,
. The earth and its inhabitants ... e north and south in narrowbands. Separated by the great fissure through which the Ouse and Trent find * Spenser, Faerie Queen. t W. Boyd Dawkins, Journal of the Geological Society, Feb., 1877. THE BASIN OF THE HUMBEE. 236 their way into the sea, the hills rise once more to the north of the estuary of theHumber, and, trending round to the eastward, terminate in the bold promontoryof Flamborough Head. To the north lie the wild and barren York Wolds,whose northern face is known as the Cleveland Hills. They are composed ofliassic strata capped by oolitic rocks, and abound in picturesque scenery, and fromtheir culminating summits afford at once a view of the distant vale of the Tees andof the sea studded wich vessels. Here and there the more prominent heights arecrowned with funereal mounds, locally known as houes* and every position ofstrategical importance is defended by vast entrenchments. These entrenchments Fig. 115.—The Mouth of the Humber and Part of 1 : 450, 5 Miles. can still be traced for miles, and they converted the valley of the Derwent, at theback of Scarborough, as well as the whole of the peninsula which is bounded bythe Humber in the south, into vast camps. The entrenchment near Scarboroughis still known as the Dances Di/ke. Some of the barrows, or /iokcs, on the ClevelandHills are as much as 200 feet in length, of quadrangular shape, and placed due eastand west. Skulls and flint and bronze implements have been found in them,and prove that they do not all belong to the same epoch. Rolleston, thearchaeologist, is of opinion that some of the skulls resemble those of the Yeddahsof Ceylon. * Hb(/, in Old Swedish or Jutic ; hoi in Danish. 236 THE BRITISH ISLES. The coast district, which juts out like an eagles b(?ak between FlamboroughHead and the estuary of the Ilumber, and terminates in Spurn Head, is known asIlolderness. The whole of this country is of recent formation, and differs alto-gether fr
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