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30 cattle or man from injuring it; it now belongs to the town of Settle. The river which runs by Settle is the Ribble. The bed-rooms at the inn are but middling: the parlour is very good, and the Fausets, who kept it in 1796, were very civil, accommodating, intelligent people.

The distance, over the moors and mountains, from Settle to Gordale, is 6 miles.

From Settle to Skipton, by Gordale, the carriage road, is 24 miles. By all means take this round to see, in Gordale Scar, one of the most astonishing, as well as one of the most terrific effects, that can be produced by rocks and felling water, particularly if you should turn round the point of the rock into the hollow, (as I did) in a storm of hail, rain, sleet, and snow, accompanied by a boisterous wind. I took shelter under the bend of the rocks, and the sun shone before I quitted the Scar; but, every step being rendered extremely slippery, it was impossible for me to clamber up the sides of the falls, I therefore lost the grandest effect of the scene. When I approached the Scar I was struck with what I had never seen before, the appearance of a bright buff-coloured waterfall, and a rivulet of the same tint flowing