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"The inhabitants of all the mountaines and places wheresoever it groweth, as some writers say, do generally hold it to be a most dangerous and deadly poison, both to man and beast; and they used to kill the wolves herewith very speedily." This is not a common plant, growing only in some particular situa-tions, as near Ingleborough in Yorkshire. RHUS Toxicodendron.
I found myself at a place called Ingleborough, which is a big table-mountain, with a top of fifteen to twenty acres, from which the sea is visible across Lancashire to the west; and in the sides of this strange hill are a number of caves which I searched during three days, sleeping in a garden-shed at a very rural and flower-embowered village, for every room in it was thronged, a place marked Clapham in the chart, in Clapdale, which latter is a dale penetrating the slopes of the mountain: and there I found by far the greatest of the caves which I saw, having ascended a path from the village to a hollow between two grass slopes, where there is a beck, and so entering an arch to the left, screened by trees, into the limestone cliff.
This vouches for its height, but there are two other doggerel lines still more to the purpose 'Pendle Hill, Pennygent, and Ingleborough, Are three such hills as you'll not find by seeking England thorough. With this opinion I quite agree. There is no hill in England like Pendle Hill."
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