No. 4 is a base shilling of Edward VI's., bearing the York Mint mark Y, the head in profile crowned; with a legend EDWARD VI. D: G: AGL FRA: Z: HIB: REX: Y:

Perhaps some other of your numismatic readers will supply other Yorkshire examples. U.M.

Mr. J. Verity, of Earlsheaton, whose extensive collection of coins of all descriptions is well known, has kindly forwarded blocks representing the Pontefract Siege Shilling.

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His sixth catalogue gives a copy of Edward VI's Sixpence from the York Mint. EDWARD VI: D: G: AGL : FRA: Z: HIBER REX: Y. Bust, front face, crowned, with ROSE and VI. POSVI DEV: A DIVTORE MEV. Y.; cross, bearing shield.;

He has also Charles I's half-crowns, shillings, sixpences, threepences of York Mint, and a Pontefract shilling of lozenge shape; obv. front of castle, with XII to the right, P above, C beneath, Oвs to the left. William III had Half-crowns struck at York mint.

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The Universal Magazine for April, 1756, mentions a Pontefract half-crown, lozenge shape, with C. R., a crown, XXX, DUM SPIRO SPERO. Reverse, the castle, and a hand out of one of the towers holding a drawn sword, OBS. P.C., 1648. A copy of the shilling is given but differs from the above cut in having no hand with drawn sword, but P. XII. C. in the place thereof, and no P. C. above the tower.

Yorkshire Waterfalls and Caves.

SCALEBER FORCE, as will be seen from the accompanying illustration, (see frontispiece,) is a charming bit of scenery. It is about a mile and a half from Settle on the Malham road, which the Scaleber beck crosses. The Hattermire or Attermyre Cliffs, great castle-like walls of limestone, with ledges running across, form a magnificent picture. A cave in the face of this amphitheatre was known to the Romans, some of their implements having been found in it. This cave was discovered by a dog belonging to Mr. Jackson, of Settle, and named the Victoria Cave. Explorations have taken place for a great many years, and science has been greatly benefitted by the results. (West Yorkshire, Davis and Lees.) The Botanist

and Entomologist will find choice specimens here, and the Artist will not fail to carry away the remembrance of these rent and fissured rocks.

THORNTON FORCE.-For many years, Mr. Joseph Carr, of Ingleton, has been writing in newspapers and pamphlet on the beauties of Ingleton. His efforts are just beginning to succeed, and few will visit that delightful retreat without being grateful to him for his persistency. More enchanting scenery, within a day's ramble, can scarcely (I was writing cannot) be found in England. Every year will see even larger numbers flock to this unexcelled attraction. Ingieton Church has just been rebuilt, but the Norman Font is well worth seeing, and the

fortified position of the Church is worthy of note. Passing over the two grains of the Greta (the Dale and Doe becks,) the visitor turns up the Doe valley, and meets with a succession of surprises. His first surprise is that he has to pay 2d.; at the close of the day his surprise is that the charge is so small. Swilla Bottom, Pecca Falls, Thornton Force, Ravenwray, Twiselton Scars, Beezley Falls in the Dale or Greta valley, Backstone Gill Hole, Yew Tree Gorge, Slate Quarries, and Ingleborough mountain, successively demand attention.

Thornton Force is a waterfall of sixty feet, poured from a ledge of limestone over a breast of slate. The surrounding shrubbery of the dale adds to the beauty, and the heavy, mountainous background gives the whole a romantic appearance. You may safely walk on the ledge behind the cascade, and gain the full power of the thundering cataract. Below is the dark pool, beyond which is a little gem island; the resounding rock over head threatens to crush you, the seething waters roar out protests against your intrusion. You are quite safe, but you feel safer when you return.

Four miles from Ingleton, on the Hawes road, is Weathercote, the finest of Ingleton's waterfalls, one which has engaged the pencil of J. M. W. Turner. On the road to it call at Easegill Force. Passing God's bridge, over the Dale beck, near Chapel le Dale you reach Weathercote cave, for which you require a guide, and the marvellous Fall, 75 feet, undescribable by pen or pencil, soon makes you awe-stricken. Gingle pot, a chasm of fifty feet, reckoning from the precipice, is a couple of hundred yards away; and Hurtle Pot, over thirty yards in diameter, is near the Chapel. The gurgling of the water in this deep pool, after heavy rain, has given the rustics the idea of Hurtle Pot Boggart. After heavy floods these pots boil over with great violence.

EASEGILL FORCE is formed by the Jenkin beck, (a tributary of the Lune,) which rises on the south side of Ingleborough, and at Easegill falls from a height of thirty or forty feet "over a hollow rock, and then dashes on to a sloping rock beneath a natural bridge, with a span of about twelve feet. This bridge, which is elevated about six yards above the bed of the stream, is thirteen feet below the point where the water begins to fall. The rocks rise on each side of the opening to a considerable height, and are partly clad with ivy, ferns, and lichens, and trees grow here and there on the ledges and out of the crevices. There is an easy path on the right, as you look at the fall, which leads to the top of the bridge, whence you have a very pretty bird's eye view through the romantic verdant arbour beneath." This description of Easegill, and the picture, are from a "Practical Pictorial Guide to Ingleton," by Thomas Johnson, Church st., Blackburn, price 3d.

YORDAS CAVE, So named from Yordas, a giant, whose chamber and oven are pointed out, is nearly five miles from Ingleton. It contains a great number of stalactites and stalagmites. The entrance opens into a large chamber sixty yards long, twenty yards high, and beyond this there is a second one with a fine cascade in wet weather. Mr. Whittingdale, of Westhouse, Bentham, gives permission to explore this cave. The stream is the Doe, which passes on to Thornton Force. In this part it is known as Kingsdale beck, and rises on Whernside. The Ingleton Dale beck rises on Blea moor, another side of the same mountain. Amongst these limestone hills are several other caves and waterfalls,-Rowting, Gingling, Gatekirk, and Douk Caves amongst the principal. The geologist and botanist will be delighted with this district.

INGLEBOROUGH CAVE, a short distance above the village of Clapham, was formerly the watercourse of the stream from the Gaping Gill Hole. The Clapdale beck, a tributary of the Wenning, is a most delightful reach of scenery. We have a deep gorge, with steep banks overgrown by a dense wood, and on either side bare, majestic, limestone escarpments. As usual in the district there is a succession of waterfalls, and the scenery is probably, unsurpassed in the country. From Trougill gorge the ancient bed of the stream may be traced up Ingleborough. Half-a-mile from Trougill is Gaping Gill Hole, down which the stream tumbles nearly four hundred feet, and at the bottom of