. An illustrated and descriptive guide to the great railways of England and their connections with the Continent . of Matlock Dale extends nearly threemiles in length, and is bounded on the one side by limestone precipices,curiously stratified and diversified by alternations of rock and wood, and 107 J r Matlock. on the other by rounded hills, finely timbered and dotted over with cottagesand villas sheltered behind the trees or built on the verge of craggy heightswhich seem to defy the possibility of approach, while down in the valleythe Derwent sweeps majestically along. The High Tor is the g
. An illustrated and descriptive guide to the great railways of England and their connections with the Continent . of Matlock Dale extends nearly threemiles in length, and is bounded on the one side by limestone precipices,curiously stratified and diversified by alternations of rock and wood, and 107 J r Matlock. on the other by rounded hills, finely timbered and dotted over with cottagesand villas sheltered behind the trees or built on the verge of craggy heightswhich seem to defy the possibility of approach, while down in the valleythe Derwent sweeps majestically along. The High Tor is the glory of Matlock. It lifts ils bold front of nakedlimestone rock, torn with rents and fissures, and chequered with mosses,lichens, and ivy, to a height of more than 400 feet, while the slopes arecovered far up with a dense mass of wood and underwood, hazels, honey-suckles, roses, and brambles; the tall elm, the mountain ash, the droopingwillow, the gnarled oak, and the pensile birch mingling their branches intangled luxuriance, and overhanging the glittering waters of the river. The L3*»- fb (^ ^ yp^r-^ r% ^. High Tor is easy of access, the grounds being laid out with ornamentalwalks, and each turn brings fresh beauties into view. Near the summit,from a narrow ledge of rock that runs round the very verge of the Tor, thevisitor looks from this giddy height down on Matlock Bath. On the opposite side of the river are the pine-covered Heights of Abra-ham, and beyond this the glorious nill Masson, from whence, after a toil-some ascent, the whole Vale of the Derwent can be seen far away to thenorth-west, and a sea of hill and dale stretching over much of threecounties comes into view. The objects of interest in Matlock are morethan we can stay to describe : the Caverns, old as Roman times; the Speed-well Mine, the High Tor Grotto, the Petrifying Wells, the Medicinal Spring-s,the Museums, the Lovers Walk might all detain our attention; but we musthie our way back to the station, and i
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