RAMBLE OVER DERBYSHIRE HILLS AND DALES. Il3 
was taking a stereograph of the church, I made a sketch in my 
note-book of the lid of an ancient stone coffin, with an elegant 
foliated cross and two keys, which is reared against the churchyard 
wall,* close by a noble beech; and W. H. occupied himself in 
copying a quaint inscription from one of the stones of the 
thickly-inhabited churchyard. Near by is the old bridge over the 
river, from which some good views are obtained, especially on the 
south over Chatsworth Park. While we stood there admiring, the 
Emperor fountain sent forth its fine jet of water and added no 
little beauty to the scene. There is a curious old stone watch-box 
on this side of the bridge, of which it forms a part, well worthy 
of a sketch, but we were in haste to get on to Stoney Middleton, 
and could afford no longer time by the way. 
* On my last visit this had disappeared. 
Io 
