Memorials from Ben Rhydding; concerning the place, its people, its cures . your view, one sincere and part-ing word. Who I am you know not, and perhapsshall never know ; neither may the facts I havespoken of, and of which I yet shall speak, beverifiable by aid of scientific chronology; but, infullest consciousness that you and I alike belongto a scheme of things wherein Reality alone shallfinally stand, I solemnly assure you that I havecoloured nothing, and that my subsequent narra-tives shall all have the same tower-mark—thestamp of Truth. If, indeed, your interest in them HOME. 23 lias a roo
Memorials from Ben Rhydding; concerning the place, its people, its cures . your view, one sincere and part-ing word. Who I am you know not, and perhapsshall never know ; neither may the facts I havespoken of, and of which I yet shall speak, beverifiable by aid of scientific chronology; but, infullest consciousness that you and I alike belongto a scheme of things wherein Reality alone shallfinally stand, I solemnly assure you that I havecoloured nothing, and that my subsequent narra-tives shall all have the same tower-mark—thestamp of Truth. If, indeed, your interest in them HOME. 23 lias a root deeper than in mere curiosity—if, an unhappy Sufferer, you are casting uneasilyabout in search of the possibility of relief—Ithink I can safely say, that the verification of myevery statement may be found laid up among thearchives of Ben But hie we to the wondrous Well itself:—Iintend to sketch for you a few features of aPicture, on which, as a whole, it may hereafter beyour fortune to gaze, and then to cherish in yourmemory as you would an BEN RHTDBING Chapter EI. >lrst ijrtir. SSN the slope of a hill, half way towards itsbroad embattled summit, stands the edificeof Ben Rhydding. Behind the rocks which over- CHARACTER OF SCENERY. 25 hang it, an extensive moor—the collecting groundof its waters—goes off to the south and west,stretching in one direction, with slight interrup-tions, as far as the neighbourhood of Skipton ; andin front, the eye reposes on the fairest and mostspacious of those parallel valleys which constitutethe physical framework of the western regions ofYorkshire. It is clear from this even, that, inreference to one important attribute, the spot iswell chosen as a shrine of Hygeia; for, shouldthe Sun beat too strongly on lower levels, refresh-ment may be had amid racy breezes on the up-lands; and when Cold and Storm are on theheath, there is shelter within the ornamentedenclosures of the Mansion, and a still warmerclimate by
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