Its immense ranges of majestic hills; its far-extending moors, interspersed with fruitful valleys and picturesque dales; its embowering groves of beech and pine, and wide-spreading forests of oak; its calm and peaceful rivers, clear and musical with the rush of innumerable mountain streams; the beauty or sublimity of the ocean, girding its romantic shores; the enormous chain of towering sea-cliffs against which in calm the billows leap with playful sportfulness, or in a tempest fiercely hurl their thunders, – all these combined present a majesty and loveliness in Nature, unsurpassed, we may venture to affirm, within the circuit of the British isles.
Ord/Cleveland
THE NORTH RIDING PROJECT 
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