CHAPTER III.--FROM HEXHAM TO NEWCASTLE.--Hexham and the Abbey Church--Dilston Hall--The Derwentwater Rising--Corbridge--Bywell Woods--Prudhoe and Ovingham--Stephenson's Birthplace--Ryton and Newburn--The Approach to Newcastle 150 CHAPTER IV.--FROM NEWCASTLE TO THE SEA.--The Growth of Tyneside--"The Coaly Tyne"--Newcastle Bridges--Local Industries--Poetical Eulogies--Tyneside Landscapes--Sandgate and the Keelmen--Wallsend--Jarrow and the Venerable Bede--The Docks--Shields Harbour--North and South Shields--The Tyne Commission--Tynemouth Priory--The Open Sea 157 THE WEAR.--_By JOHN GEDDIE._ 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 173 THE TEES.--_By AARON WATSON._ Among the Fells--The Weel--Caldron Snout--High Force--Gibson's Cave--Bow Leys--Middleton-in-Teesdale--The Lune and the Balder--Scandinavian Names--Cotherstone Cheese--History in Teesdale--Scott's Description of the Tees--Egliston Abbey--Greta Bridge--Dickens and Mr. Squeers--Brignal Banks and Rokeby--The Village of Ovington--Gainford--Pierce Bridge--High and Low Coniscliffe--Croft--Yarm--The Industries of the Tees--Stockton--Middlesbrough--The Sea 197 THE HUMBER AND ITS TRIBUTARIES. _By the REV. CANON BONNEY, D.Sc., F.R.S._ CHAPTER I.--THE TRENT, FROM THE SOURCE TO NEWTON SOLNEY.--The Course of the Trent--A Lowland Stream--Etymological--A Fish-Stream--The Source--The Potteries--Burslem, Etruria, and Josiah Wedgwood--Stoke-upon-Trent--Trentham Hall--Stone--Sandon--Chartley Castle--Ingestre and its Owners--The Sow--Tixall--Essex Bridge--Shugborough--Cannock Chase--Rugeley--Beaudesert--Armitage--The Blyth--Alrewas--The Tame--Burton-upon-Trent--Newton Solney 221 _By EDWARD BRADBURY._