The Wilderness of the West, Part Two

One large stone only had found its way to the bottom, and in stopping the course of a small brook which glided smoothly round the foot of the imminence. The human figures which completed this landscape were in number two partaking in their dress and appearance of that wild rustic character which belonged to the woodlands of the west riding of Yorkshire at that early period. The eldest of these men had a stern, savage, and wild aspect. His garment was of the simplest form imaginable, being a close jacket with sleeves composed of the tan skin of some animal on which the hair had been originally left,. But which had been worn off in so many places that it would have been difficult