REPORT. Xxl 
of my late friend, William Wood, and partly from my own obser- 
vations on previous visits. But little can be said in the short time 
at my disposal, further than to indicate the principal objects of 
interest you have come here to see. Those who would know 
more about this ‘Queen of the Peak,’ as Eyam has been called, 
and its ‘mighty woe,’ should consult Rhodes’ Peak Scenery, the 
Liistory of Eyam, by William Wood, and Ze Desolation of Eyam, 
an early poem by William and Mary Howitt. Numberless other 
authors have written about this ‘little mountain city,’ and its self- 
sacrificing inhabitants of 1666, but most of them have drawn 
largely on the works I have named. 
“The village and parish of Eyam, in the High Peak of Derby- 
shire, are in the Honours of Peveril and Tutbury, the ecclesiastical 
jurisdiction of the Archdeacon of Derby, and in the Diocese of 
Lichfield and Coventry. The village stands in the south-east part 
of the parish, and contains about 250 houses and 1 500 inhabitants, 
chiefly employed in agriculture, lead-mining, and the manufacture 
of boots and shoes. It is principally of one Street, nearly a mile 
in length, built on a ledge of mountain limestone, just where the 
sandstone strata commence. 
“The origin of the name Eyam is open to doubt. In the 
Norman Survey it is written Azune,; in the 1 5th century Zyham 
and Zkam. The Saxon word ea, water 3 and ham or am,a dwelling- 
place, would seem to indicate its derivation, for the village is 
abundantly supplied with springs and rivulets. Or, it may be that 
ey is a corruption of high; hence, high dwelling-place, equally 
applicable to its situation. 
“T shall not trouble you with any remarks on the geology of this 
district, beyond the striking fact that, though the village is a mile 
in length, its single street—serpentining along the hill-side and 
following its contour—has its houses on the south side, all built on 
the carboniferous limestone; while on the north side, they are 
placed just where the shale and sandstone strata commence. So, 
to the south of the village you find nothing but mountain lime- 
stone, with its innumerable organic remains, caverns, and water- 
swallows ; and to the xorthrises the superjacent shale and sandstones 
