A General Account of All Rivers of Note in Great Britain: With the Several ...
A General Account of All Rivers of Note in Great Britain: With the Several ...
Henry Skrine
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Lord Carlisle's grand display of Castle Howard lies a few miles westward of this stream, which enters the Wolds, having then^ united its branches, at the neat town of Malton, and defcends through them southward, falling into the great level about six miles eastward ^f York, and meeting the^ Ouse^ now considcraMy increased in width, a few miles before its great junction with th^ Trent. The Humber is thus constituted, that most considerable aestuary in the north of Englsmd, uniting 3o many ^reat ...streams, and transporting such various articles of commerce to and from the western side ofYorkshirc and Lancashire. Nature now, F3 Digitized by Google 70 RIVERS AND COAST as if invited by this broad sheet of water, exalts itself from the level it had reposed in, and the rival shores of Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, rise for a w^hile into bold hills, from which this great arm of the se'4 h finely overlooked. Hessle, from whence a ferry is constituted to Barton, occupies a charming emiilehce, and the drive from thence across the hills, towards i3ic Wolds, is delightfully pleasant ; com-^ manding the handsome town of Beverley, with its elegant Gothic minster in a rich vdc bdow> and the* flourishing port of Hull, whose fine old church, and numer- ous buildings, appear enveloped in smokfJ, and fencompassed with a crowd of ship- ping, while the whole expanse between Yorkshire and Lincolnshire is filled by the broad mirror of the Humber.
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