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| | GENUKI: A description of the North Riding of Yorkshire, 1890: Part 0. |
 | | Each Riding has a separate Lieutenancy, Magistracy, Clerk of the Peace, Treasurer, and other public officers and courts; but all of them are amenable to the superior courts held for the whole shire at York Castle, within the bounds of the city of York, which is also a county of itself. |
 | | The North Riding, which more immediately concerns us in the present volume, occupies the northern portion of the county, extending from the river Tees, which separates it from Durham, almost to the walls of York, and from the borders of Westmoreland to the shore of the German Ocean. |
 | | In the north of this Oolitic plateau are the Cleveland Hills, which have become famous in recent years through the discovery of immense deposits of iron ore. The most remarkable eminence in the group is Roseberry Topping, which rises like a sugar loaf to the height of 1,022 feet. |
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