ard the Strata, t^c in Derly shire. 259 



suddenly absorb tliis considerable River, aflP.r it has 

 crossed the great Limestone Fault*. 



Winnets Dale,"W of Castleton, extending about i m. W, 

 in 4th Lime, deep and rugged; the Turnpike Road to 

 Chapcl-en-le-Frith goes up this steep and curious valley. 



Wirksworih Dale, iii^NW end of the Town, extending 

 NW about \ m. in 3rd Lime. 



Woo Dale, E of Buxton, exceeding N about \- m. from 

 Wve Dale, in 4th Lime. 



Wve Dalet, E of Puxton, extends E about 4 m. from Mill 

 and Sherbrook Dales to Millers Dale, in 4ih Lime, and 

 3rd Toadstone at its E end, the 3rd Lime there also 

 skirting it on each side. Chee Tor, Peterson Pike, and 

 Lover's Leap, are noted Rocks in this Dale, which has 

 some Slither in it, particularly opposite to Chee Tor in 

 Wormhill, where are two very large Springs of Water. 

 The Duke of Devonshire has, I have been informed, a 

 design of extending the private Road for the accommo- 

 dation of Travellers^ from Lover's Leap at the SE end of 

 Mill Dale, through Wye Dale, Millers Dale, and Monsal 

 Dale to Ashford" by which all the Hills between these 

 places, and indeed all those l^etween Buxton and Matlock 

 nearly, would be avoided, besides laving open the fine 

 Rock scenery on the Banks of the Wye River, which 

 has hitherto been but little seen, owing to the great dif- 

 ficulty of access to it. 



I have selected the above, as specimens of the narrow 

 and precipitous Valleys of Derbyshire and its environs : the 

 neighbnurhoods of Ballidon, Brassington-pastures, Brush- 

 field, Dovvall, Flagg, Hariington, Pike Hall and others, 

 present similar Dales, some of consider.ib!e length, and 

 not less striking than many of the above, and which I have 

 visited, but don't happen to have learnt their particular 

 Names ; otherw ise they would have been included, on ac- 

 count of the facility which such Lists give, of recording a 

 number of highly curious and interesting phasiiomena, of 

 which Travellers may in future avail themselves: it is to 

 such Vallevs also, that Mineralogists and Geologists must 

 principally resort, to become acquainted with the different 

 Calcareous and Basaltic Rocks of this Count v, to draw 

 materials for the Natural History of each, and for settling 



* f^ec p'!!je n? of the present vohmic. — Foitor.] 



t Sometime'; the term IC'ie D'i'f is used, to designate the entire Limestone 

 V;illey from Buxton lo Cakewcll, in which sense, it inchides Mill Dale, 

 Miller* Dale, Moiifial Dale, /kc. — See further particulars of the strata in 

 thcjc Dales in the present volume p. 198. 



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