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Descriptions, Geological, Topographical, and Antiquarian in Eastern Yorkshire, Between the Rivers Humber and Tees
Descriptions Geological Topographical and Antiquarian in Eastern Yorkshire Between the Rivers Humber and Tees Author:Robert Knox Subtitle: With a Trigonometrically Surveyed Map Extending Twenty-Five Miles From Scarborough, [etc.]. General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1855 Original Publisher: printed for R. Knox Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When ... more »you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: VALE OF DERWENT AND RYE. (vale Op Pickering.) Before the conquest of this island by the Romans, this Vale, with its connecting Vale, Rye Dale, was doubtless, in a state of nature, much covered with water, during the principal part of the year; and was probably a boundary between two ancient British states. I shall borrow from Mr. Marshall what relates to the agriculture of this Vale. " The soil of the lands varies. Part of them are of a loose loamy texture, but more generally they are of a close firm clayey nature; such as we frequently find where large bodies of water have been accustomed to lie. In some places, especially in the upper margin " (viz., that part of this level marked on the map The Carrs), " the clay is covered with a stratum of black vegetable mould, generated probably by the overflowings of the spring while the ground lay in a neglected state." . . . . " The marshes," (the old word Marishees is still retained, and written so on the map) " of this Vale lie upon a flat, and but barely above the level of the Derwent; they are at present kept principally in an arable state, and chiefly in wide flat beds; hence the land is kept drained. But the East Marshes," (east of Yedingham Bridge) " in the winter months are generally buried under water, and in summer mouths subject to be overflowed The rivers of the Vale are the Derwent and the Rye, which latter, by receiving the waters of the Costa, the Seven, the Dove, the Rical, and other inferior brook...« less