the Scandinavians and their heathen worship in the neighbouring dale of the Tees. In the five northern counties, Worsaae returns Danish-Norwegian place-names in the following order: Westmorland 158, Cumberland 142, Durham 23, Northumberland 22, and Yorkshire in its three Ridings 405. The ending _by_ occurs 167 times in Yorkshire, and _thorpe_ 95 times; whilst 7 of each are ascribed to Durham, and but 1 of the latter only to Northumberland. Yorkshire, however, on a closer inquiry, shows over 250 names of places containing the element _by_, and over 160 of that of _thorpe_, the former predominating in the North and West, and the latter in the East and West Ridings. Of the 83 names ending in the Norwegian test-word _thwaite_, as mentioned by Worsaae, 80 occur in the northern district, Yorkshire 9, Lancashire 14, Westmorland 14, and in Norwegian Cumberland 43, whilst there are no _thwaites_ in Durham or Northumberland. The evidence adduced from names of places thus goes to prove that the Angles of Durham and Northumberland, though under the yoke of the Danes during the ascendancy of the Scandinavian power, have, from their first settlement, continued on their adopted soil through all the vicissitudes incident to the descents of the Britons from the western mountains, the inroads of the Picts and Scots, the ravages of the Vikings, and the subduing marches of the powerful William of Normandy. Northumbria, as of old, may be divided into two provinces in respect to its place-names--Deira, the district of the Danes, and Bernicia, the district of the Angles, the central boundary-line being the River Tees. The Norse _beck_ and Anglo-Saxon _burn_ distinctively mark this line between these districts in the upper reaches of the valleys of the Wear and Tees. The mountain-range from Burnhope Seat, at the western confines of Durham, eastward to Paw Law Pike, forms the south division between the parishes of Stanhope in Weardale and Middleton in Teesdale. The principal tributaries of the Tees, on the south of this ridge, are _becks_, whilst those on the Wear side are _burns_. In Weardale, at the north-western extremity, Scraith _Burn_ and Langtay _Burn_ contribute to Burnhope _Burn_. On the Tees side, rising within half a mile or so of the above burns, Ashgill _Beck_ contributes its waters to Harewood _Beck_. Farther eastward we have Harthope _Burn_ on the Weardale side, and Harthope _Beck_, which runs into Langdon _Beck_, on the Teesdale side, both streams rising on Harthope Fell, and within a few yards of each other.