T42 RAMBLE OVER DERBYSHIRE HILLS AND DALES. 
the paper mill. The walk was very beautiful and tempting to 
wanderers in search of the picturesque like ourselves ; we 
“* often paused, so strange the road, 
So wondrous were the scenes it show’d.” 
The brook which served the paper mill seemed to solicit an 
exploration, and pictures for the camera abounded in every 
direction. We could see in the distance, looking back, the forms 
of Higgar and Owler towering against the sky ; at our feet lay the 
valley of the Derwent ; and beyond,_the Vale of Hope, with the © 
majestic form of Win Hill on our left. Our way now lay beneath 
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RUINS OF CHAPEL AT NORTH LEES. 
Bamford Edge, over the moor, and we soon got down to Ashopton 
Inn and Tillett. Fiddling and fuddling seemed the order of 
the day here, being the wakes, but we ‘refreshed and travelled 
on,” keeping by the side of the river Derwent, which here flows 
over a rocky bed along a rather confined valley, Derwent Edge 
keeping us company on our right. 
From Ashopton Inn to Derwent Chapel is a mile-and-a-half, and 
the road being very rough we had all to tug at the cart. I 
noticed great quantities of meadow-sweet growing by the river side. 
It was nearly three o’clock when we reached Derwent Hall, the 
