As we round the Tynemouth cliffs the fishing village of Cullercoats comes into sight, rather over a mile away, with the dim, far-projecting Newbiggin Point a few miles beyond. On bright days a flash of light may reveal the white lighthouse at Coquet Island, by Warkworth town. Round the rocky promontory close at hand there is a little bay, a projecting point of rock, and then a long stretch of yellow sand, broken almost at its centre by a brown, weedy reef of rocks, among which the pools linger when the tide goes down. This is "Tynemouth Sands." Here the pleasure-seekers come in crowds the summer through, rejoicing in the fine weather, and yet desiring a storm, a sight which, once beheld, would leave its memory within them their whole lives through. "Oh, hear us when we cry to Thee For those in peril on the sea," runs the touching sailors' hymn, and to those who live about the mouth of a river like the Tyne it has a deep meaning and thrilling pathos, such as those who have never heard it sung when the tempest was blowing outside cannot fathom or understand. For storms only those who live inland have any longing, for though these have heard of the wildness, they do not know the terror of the sea. AARON WATSON. [Illustration: TYNEMOUTH, FROM CULLERCOATS.] [Illustration: IN WEARDALE.] THE WEAR. William of Malmesbury on the Wear--Its Associations--Upper Weardale and its Inhabitants--Stanhope--Hunting the Scots--Wolsingham--Bollihope Fell and the "Lang Man's Grave"--Hamsterley--Witton-le-Wear--Bishop Auckland--Binchester--Brancepeth Castle--The View from Merrington Church Tower--Wardenlaw--Durham--St. Cuthbert--His Movements during Life and Afterwards--The Growth of his Patrimony--Bishop Carilepho and his Successors--The Battle of Neville's Cross--The Bishopric in Later Times--The Cathedral, Without and Within--The Conventual Buildings--The Castle--Bear Park--Ushaw--Finchale--Chester-le-Street--Lumley and Lambton Castles--Biddick--Hylton--Sunderland and the Wearmouths--The North Sea.