Identifier: earthitsinhabita04recl (find matches)
Title: The earth and its inhabitants ..
Year: 1882 (1880s)
Authors: Reclus, Elisée, 1830-1905 Ravenstein, Ernest George, 1834-1913 Keane, Augustus Henry, 1833-1912
Subjects: Geography
Publisher: New York : D. Appleton and Company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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ted out, which tradition asserts to contain the bones ofSaxons and Danes who fell on a neighbouring battle-field. There are a smallcathedral raised above a Saxon crypt and several ancient hospitals. StudleyRoyal, the princely seat of the Marquis of Ripon, lies to the west of Ripon, andnear it are the picturesque ruins of Fountains Abbey, at one time one of the mostpowerful houses of the Cistercians, who held all the land from the banks of theUre as far as the hills of Cumberland. Boroughbridge and Aldhorough, the RomanIsurium, are small towns below Ripon, in whose vicinity many antiquities have beendiscovered. Most curious amongst these relics of the past are three obelisk-likemasses of ragstone, which have long puzzled the brains of antiquaries. 254 THE BRITISH ISLES. The Nidd, in its upper course, flows through the beautiful Nidderdale, theprincipal town in which is Pateley Bridge, where there is a lead mine. Ripley has Fig. 124.—Towns in South-Western Yorkshire.Scale 1 : 506,000.
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5 Miles. an old castle and an ambitious new town-hall. At Knareshorough the river flowsbetween steep clifis, wooded at their foot. Here, too, there is a castle, and, besidesthis, a dropping well, by the side of which Mother Shipton, the famous YORKSHIEE. 255 prophetess of the sixteenth century, was born, and extensive limestone quarries.Ribston is a small village below Knaresborough, where Ribston pippins werefirst grown. Harrogate, the famous wateiing-place, occupies a lofty position abovethe Ure. The first spring was discovered in 1596, and there are now known abouttwenty-five, both sulphureous and chalybeate. The VVharfe rises in Langshothdale, and takes its winding course through adale renowned for its scenic charms. It flows past the ruins of Bolton Abbey andthe huge hydropathic establishments which have made IlJdey a second Malvern,until it reaches Otley, a small manufacturing town, which is the capital of Wharfe-dale. At Wetherhy the Wharfe emerges upon the plain of York, and f

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