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74 part of the stream are called Bleakhope and Shillmoor. Due south of the peak of Hedgehope, on a little side-stream from this northern ridge, is Linhope Spout, the finest waterfall of the district. High up on the bare hill-side, 500 feet above Reveley, the waters of this little burn fall over a brown porphyritic crag 50 feet in depth into a deep basin, and as the directories tell us, "the cataract is sometimes called the Roughton Linn, from the great noise made by the fall of the water when the stream is full." Where the road from Branton to Wooler crosses it, this northern spur is only 550 feet in elevation. A lower ridge of hill than that of which we have been speaking runs between the Breamish and the head of the Aln. The peaks between Alnham and Ingram are Cochrane Pike (1096 feet) and the Grey Yade of Coppal (900 feet); and the highest point of the road west of Glanton is 500 feet. At Branton, where this main stream enters the flat cultivated country, the character of these Cheviot rivulets, in their short stage of transition from hill-burns to low-country streams, is well shown. They spread out into broad shallow channels, with beds full of pebbles and rounded boulders of porphyritic rock, with wild roses, broom, furze, and bushes of Salix purpurea scattered over the flat and dry-loving plants amongst their sandy borders, Galium verum, lotus, harebell, Anthyllis, Reseda luteola, and Malva moschata, and in the thin bare places Trifolium arvense, Filago minima, and Aira caryophyllea. Opposite Eglingham the distance from the hill-spur on the north to that on the south is not more than 2 miles. South of the Reveley ridge, on the east slope of Hedgehope, is a depression in the Cheviot mass, down which two small streams, Roddam burn and Lilburn, run down to join the Till, the former with a pleasant wooded dene. From the sandstone ridge there are no streams of any consequence entering the Till south of Chatton, where it turns more to the west, till it receives the branch which is called sometimes the Caldgate Burn and sometimes the Wooler Water. The town of Wooler is situated on the very outskirts of the Cheviot mass on a rather steep slope, the main street being about 300 feet above sea-level and the bridge 50 feet lower. The highest mass of hill, to which the