these have wide mouths? What river forms part of the boundary between England and Scotland? The town at its mouth? town on the Aln? A town on the Wansbeck? A 3. Name six important towns on the lower course of the Tyne What counties does this river divide? What two rivers join to form the Tyne? What town stands near their junction? The remains of what wall run parallel with the Tyne? 4. Name three towns at the mouth of the Wear. Two important towns higher up the river. What battle was fought near Durham? Date? 5. What counties does the Tees divide? Name a port at its mouth on the Durham side. Name an important town higher up the valley. 6. What are the upper valleys of the Tees and Wear called? Amongst what mountains do these dales lie? What Force is in the upper course of the Tees? Name the four villages which lie most to the west among the Pennine Moors in Durham. 7. Where are the Cheviot Hills? Name the highest point. Its height. Name three battle-fields among the Cheviots, giving the date of each battle. In what direction do the rivers of Northumberland and Durham flow? Where do they rise? CUMBERLAND AND WESTMORELAND. I. THE LAKE DISTRICT. THE lake district lies within the southern half of Cumberland, the western half of Westmoreland, and the piece of Lancashire known as Furness. This is the playground of England, whither the young men go to climb the mountains, and young and old to be refreshed by the ever-changing beauty of lake and fell. In the season there are always tourists about, knapsack on shoulder, who make their way on foot, or by the pleasant old stage-coach; railways have only penetrated into the beautiful valleys in a few places as yet. The market-place of Keswick or of Ambleside is a merry scene on a bright morning, when the coaches are about to start. There they are: Ullswater coach, Coniston coach, Windermere coach, Keswick coacheach with its four fine horses. The gay passengers crowd round, everybody mounts to the top, ladies and all-happy they who get the front seats-and, with a merry blast of the horn, off goes the coach. Not leaving us in the market-place, though; we have secured the box-seat on the Keswick coach. By the way, what a pleasant village, or rather town, Ambleside is, built of the dark blue-grey rock of the slate mountains, and standing in an open valley with towering mountains round it. Every village nestles in its own dale in this lake country; and a hardy, In the rural villages upright race the dalesmen are. many of them are shepherds, for shepherding is the only kind of farm work possible among the mountains. The road to Keswick leads between fells fringed with larch trees, and is bordered by the Rotha river, until we reach Rydal Water,—a fairy mere, with little, green, tree-shaded islands dotted over it, and with mountain shadows, and cloud shadows, and gleaming lights upon its waters. That rock, looking over the little lake, is "Wordsworth's Seat," and on the slope of the fell is Rydal Mount, which was the home of this "Lake Poet." Mr. Wordsworth was a great walker; he wandered among the dales, and climbed the fells, and knew every mile of the beautiful lake country; and the beauty of it all was the joy of his life, and filled his heart with deep holy thoughts, some of which he has put into sweet words for our enjoyment. Even the musical names of the fells were a delight to bim. He tells us how, when he and a lady friend were walking forth one day, the lady laughed aloud, and,——— "The rock, like something starting from a sleep, And Kirkstone tossed it from his misty head." It is not always quite so easy to wake the echoes; but the report of a gun, or the baying of the hounds, |