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232 THH MAIDEN WAY, ^vcre five riiloes of stones or barrows, averaoino; about 150 yards in length, and about a yard deep. They were composed of loose stones, and have the appearance of so many terraces rising above each other, and running parallel The Cairns. Tniusvcrso Section, from W. to E. from north to south. They have been carted away for the jih^igh. At this jilace there was fornierl}'- an old building with ver}' thick walls, and portholes like those in the tower at the Crew. The jIaiden Way, on leaving the Black Lyne river, passes on the west side of a petritying spring, rising up through a large deposit of limestone tufa, with a quantity of stones lying round it, as if it had been walled at some former period. The situation of this place may be described as a land of mists and drifting sleets, and baleful vapours. It is a scene of solcnni desolation, and yet it is such as may perhaps raise the thoughts to Him that walketh on the wings of the wind, and watches over even the lowest provinces of man's existence. (500 yards.) At 8050 yards the line is continued along the east side of the Catslack Crags. The road here has swerved a little to the east to avoid a deep and extensive morass. The ancient ditch is still to be traced accompanying the Way. ((jOO yards.) It then skirts along the edge of the morass, and at U550 yards passes an extensive enclosure strongly fortified, in which are the foundations, possibly, of" another jMile Castle about 15 yards square, and standing about three feet above the ground, now covered with turf. The Imilding aj)pears to have been divided into two .-ipailiiK iils. it is placed at tlnj foot of (he liill iinnii'diately underneath »SIelton I'ikc, a rude [iil(! (jf .stoiifs iHidicd on the western j)(jiiit ot a long n)cky ridge of laml.' The Way turns again ' Skolton: poKHilily (1< rivcil from .'^.-ix., IiiiIh iirr htill tii-iiii'(l in hoiiu' p.'irtn of S<r<'al<l, ft (Icfi'iKM', ii hIiIcIiii^', aiiil Ton, II CiiiiiImtIiiihI. Or Irom ilic ( 'cllic, Hccilc, ii ti»wii, — a coiluclioii <)fMl<<;llM, amiliejilu.-nlh' jii^'K«l rock.