^{page 338 note 1} Every peat-covered plateau, in fact, acts precisely as an ordinary sponge filled with water; never giving off any considerable streams, save after rains, when the spongy mass is surcharged with moisture and pours into the Dales those peat-stained moorland waters which painters love so dearly to depict.—Edit. Geol. Mag.

^{page 338 note 2} From one of these sections Prof. Nicholson obtained Agnostus Morei, Salt., and other rare fossils.

^{page 339 note 1} In addition to the great watershed running along the Cross Fell range in a general N.N.W. direction, separating the waters that flow into the North and Irish Seas, another originates in the terraced scars of that mountain, running a little north of east, separating the valleys of the Tees and the South Tyne, passing near the source of the latter river to Bel Beaver, on which is some evidence of an old camp, from whence it turns northward to Burnhope Seat (2452), and runs along that range of hills (the boundary between Durham and Cumberland, and afterwards, further north, between the former and Northumberland), parting the waters of Weardale from those of the rivers East and West Allen.