The Scenery in Yorkshire and Wuthering Heights

Emily Bronte used the scenery in Yorkshire as that in Wuthering Heights.   There are many moors and barrens in Wuthering Heights.   The weather is very freezing and snowy in winter, and very warm in summer.

Examples:
1. "In winter, nothing more dreary, in summer, nothing
more divine, than those glens shut in by hills,
and those bluff, bold swells of heath."

2. "Gimmerton chapel bells were still ringing; and the full, mellow flow of the beck in the valley came soothingly on the ear. It was a sweet substitute for the yet absent murmur of the summer foliage, which drowned that music about the Grange when the trees were in leaf. At Wuthering Heights it always sounded on quiet days, following a great thaw, or a season of steady rain."

3. "On an afternoon in October, or the beginning of November, a fresh watery afternoon, when the turf and paths were rustling with moist, withered leaves, and the cold, blue sky was half hidden by clouds-dark gray streamers, rapidly mounting from the west, and boding abundant rain."

4. "Linton said the pleasant manner of spending a hot July day was lying from morning till evening on a bank of heath in the middle of the moors, with the bees humming dreamily about among the bloom, and the larks singing high up over head , and the blue sky and bright sun shining steadily and cloudlessly."

5. "Mine was rocking in a rustling green tree, with a west wind blowing, and bright, white clouds flitting rapidly above; and not only larks, but throstles, and blackbirds, and linnets, and cuckoos pouring out music on every side, and the moors seen at a distance, broken into cool dusky dells; but close by, great swells of long grass undulating in waves to the breeze; and woods and sounding water, and the whole world awake  and wild with joy."
 

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