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 termed the End-hill. Where the Herefordshire Beacon falls back to the westward, occurs a wide, and in some places thickly wooded, valley, in the bottom of which is situated the retired village of Little Malvern. All these vallies run from west to east, and gradually widen as they descend. There are none parallel to the direction of the chain.

§ 6. In Nash's History of Worcestershire, the highest point of the Malvern Hills is said to be 1313 feet above the level of the Severn at Hanley. In the table lately published of the altitudes taken in the course of the Ordnance Survey in different parts of England, the height of the Malvern Hills above the level of the sea is stated at 1444 feet. I am informed by Lieut. Col. Mudge that the particular hill to which this measurement refers, is that situated in the centre of the range, the Herefordshire Beacon. I had not an opportunity of ascertaining the height of this hill above the adjacent plain; I obtained however that of the Worcestershire Beacon and of the North-hill. The instrument I made use of was Sir Henry Englefield's portable barometer, and the following are the results of my observations. My lowest station was at the north-eastern extremity of the common, called the Links, from which point there is almost a dead level to the banks of the Severn.

As the right bank of the Severn, at the termination of the plain from which these measurements are calculated, is between sixty and