RAMBLE OVER DERBYSHIRE HILLS AND DALES. 115 
Here we found William Wood,* the historian of Eyam, who had 
been waiting for us some time at the “ Lover’s Leap” Inn. We took 
two views here, showing the fine rock, which Mr. Wood assures 
us is a genuine Lover’s Leap; that a young woman of the name 
of Baddaley, about a hundred years ago, threw herself in a fit 
of disappointed love from this height, and miraculously escaped 
with her life, her petticoat forming a parachute, and her fall being 
further broken by the boughs of a small yew-tree growing in the 
crevices of the rock ; she fell into a saw-pit, and, though bruised 
and disfigured, was able to limp home, where she lived many 
years in a state of single blessedness. 
The smoke from the lime-kilns in the valley beyond, drifting 
this way, made photographing very difficult, and sometimes 
impossible ; and, much as Mr. Rhodes and others have praised 
the fine effects thus produced, we thought differently. Apart 
from all photographic considerations, it was really too much of a 
good thing—all the kilns appeared to be of one mind, and 
smoked away like Dutchmen during our whole time in the Dale. 
We managed, however, to get a view of the Castle Rock, a noble 
piece of Nature’s handiwork, 
‘* On whose veteran front 
The storms that come at Winter’s stern behest 
Have beat for ages.” 
This we got from the opposite hill side, just behind a picturesque 
paint mill, itself a study. Here we were joined by two artists, 
who proposed sketching the grand and castle-like rock from the 
same point. They were delighted at the bo-peeping of the rock 
behind the smoke-clouds. Some of the old kilns here are very 
fine studies, resembling the gateways of castles built in the rudest 
ages. The scenery of Middleton Dale is very bold and striking ; 
on the right, huge masses of rock of fantastic shapes tower above 
the winding road, and threaten to hurl their tottering summits on 
* Died June 27, 1865, in his 61st year. An excellent memoir of this self- 
made man, written by Mr. Peter Furness, of Eyam, appeared in the 6th Vol. of 
The Reliquary. : 
