NORTH RIDING.

The NORTH RIDING, considering its extent, has not many navigable waters, although the rivers and streams, provincially called becks, are very numerous.

The principal is the Ure, rising near Westmoreland, running through the Weusley Dale; six miles below Boroughbridge it is called the Ouse, and at York leaves the North

The Tees divides the Riding from the County of Durham, during its whole extent, and is navigable for vessels of 30 tons from the ocean to Yarm, where the spring-tide rises seven feet.

RIVERS. The WEST RIDING is eminent for the num-Riding. ber of its navigable rivers. The Ouse, so called when it arrives at York, but in the former part of its course called the Ure, rises near Westmoreland, and collecting many tributary streams in its course through the beautiful Dale of Wensley, in part of its progress divides the West from the North Riding; it finally loses its name in the Humber. It is navigable for vessels of 120 tons as high as York, where the spring-tides used to be felt to about the height of a foot and a half, but are now hindered by the locks below the City. The Ure is navigable to Ripon for barges of 30 tons.

The Don or Dun rises on the borders of Cheshire, and is rendered navigable to Sheffield.

The Calder rises in Lancashire, and five miles below Wakefield joins the Aire.

The Aire issues from the mountain Pennygant, and by means of Canals is navigable to Leeds, Bradford, and Skipton, it falls into the Don near Snaith.

The Wharfe rises at the foot of the Craven Hills, and after a course of fifty miles across the Riding, keeping a great part of its course at the distance of ten miles from the Aire, falls into the Ouse.

The Nidd or Nydd rises in Maderdale Forest, and joins the Ouse or Ure a few miles above York.

The Ribble rises among the mountains near Skipton, and running South near Settle and Gisburne, passes into Lancashire. There are many other streams of less importance, too numerous to specify.

CANALS in the West Riding.-The Leeds and Liverpool Canal begins at the Mersey, at the lower extremity of Liverpool, and in its course is carried over several rivers, until it arrives at Leeds, after a course of one hundred and thirty miles, with a fall of 858 feet; namely, from the summit level near Colne, to Leeds, forty-five miles, fall 409 feet; thence to Wigan, fifty miles, 399 feet fall; thence to Liverpool, thirty-five miles, 30 feet fall. There is also a collateral cut from Shipley to Bradford.

The Barnsley Canal joins the Calder below Wakefield, and passes Crofton, Felkirk, and Royston, and arrives at Barnsley in length about fourteen miles. The fall from its junction with the Dearne and Dove Canal, to the Calder, is 120 feet: many railways are connected with it.

The Dearne and Dove Canal commences from the Dun, and forms a junction with the Barnsley Canal: it has several subsidiary branches. Its whole length is nine miles and a quarter, with a rise of 125 feet from the Dun to Barnsley.

The Derwent rises in the Eastern Moorlands, on coming to Malton it is navigable to the Humber for vessels of 25 tons burden.

The Foss is a small stream rising near the western end of the Howardian Hills, and unites with the Ouse at York. The Swale, the Esk, and the Rye, rise and flow for their whole course in this Riding, but are shallow, rapid, and liable to sudden floods.

The Cover, the Greta, the Leren, the Rical, the Dove, the Seven, the Costa, and many similar streams in this Riding, only serve the purpose of turning mills.

The Rye, the Rical, the Hodge-beck, the Dove, the Seven, and the Pickering- Beek, are all engulfed in the course of their passage on their arrival at the narrow range of limestone hills that skirt the southern side of the Eastern Moorlands, and again emerge into day at their foot on the northern margin of Risdale, after having been totally lost to view for the space of a mile and a half.

Nature has thus furnished the NORTH RIDING with navigable waters on one-half of its circumference at least; the Derwent and Ouse on the South; the Tees on the North; and the Sea to the East.

CANALS.-Navigation has hitherto been assisted by art only in one instance, in the Canal from York to Stillington, a distance of about fourteen miles. Another proposed Canal, intended to pass down the Vale of York, and join the Tees and Ouse, will be a work of great public utility.

EAST RIDING.

RIVERS. The Derwent is navigable for vessels of 70 tons, from its junction with the Ouse up to Malton.

The Ouse, from York to its junction with the Trent, is a smooth-flowing river, and conveys sea vessels to York: at the junction with the Trent it loses the former name, and is now called the Humber, which, from its great width and depth of water, admits vessels of any burden up to Hulb; or, more properly, Kingston-upon-Hull.

The River Hall is navigable up to Fordingbridge, communicates with Beverley by a Canal, and another Canal carries the navigation from Fordingbridge to Driffield.

Exclusive of these navigable waters, many smaller streams and numberless rivulets add to the comfort and ornament of the country. The numerous brooks at the eastern foot of the Wolds are well known to anglers, under the general name of the Driffield Waters, which, with the Hull, abound in Trout of large size and peculiar

The Stainforth and Keadby Canal commences at the Dun, about a mile from Fishlake, and finally joins the Trent: its total length is nearly fifteen miles, and as it runs through a part of the fenny country, it has no lockage ex-excellence. cept out of the rivers at its extremities.

The Huddersfield Canal joins Sir John Ramsden's Canal on the South of Huddersfield, runs parallel with the Colne, and passes under Brunn Top, by a tunnel of nearly three miles and a half in length: it then joins the Ashton and Oldham Canal, on the South of Ashton, having run a course of nineteen miles and five furlongs, with 770 feet lockage.

In many places, great drainages of meres and cars have increased the limits of cultivation, and diminished the domain of the angler. Hornsea Mere, in Holderness, is the largest in this part of England, being two miles long by three quarters wide: the sea sometimes drives up the outlet, and destroys the fish at the lower part of it: it is interspersed with several wooded islands, and animated with water-fowl. It produces pike, eels, perch, and roach.”