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archaeologist,) instead of bearing to the right, and visit- 

 ing Lyme, we make our way for a short distance along 

 the Buxton road, and then mount the steep ascent upon 

 the left, cottages on either hand, eventually turning into 

 a lane, through a gate that opens and shuts by a piece 

 of mechanism illustrative of the ingenuity of the ante- 

 diluvians, we come to the broad and airy hillside called 

 JACKSON EDGE. Keep mounting the turf upon the left, 

 and a few minutes will bring reward in another of the 

 grand initiative panoramas upon which Disley so justly 

 prides itself. The plain, seen from Lyme Park, is dis- 

 played even more extensively, yet we must not pause 

 over it long, since a greater treat awaits us. Jackson 

 Edge, however, may by some be found far enough, and 

 in that case it is best to curl round by the stone-quar- 

 ries, (where grows the stag's-horn, Lyeopo'dium clava'tum,} 

 and so into the fir-wood, thence descending into the 

 Buxton road a very pleasant little walk, and enough, 

 in truth, to give an idea of the extent of country com- 

 manded from this last of the Cheshire hills. Better 

 far nevertheless is it to descend in the direction that 

 leads farthest away from Disley, when, after passing 

 through a few fields, we reach MARPLE RIDGE. No 

 one can suppose, without going thither, how vast is the 

 prospect obtained from the ridge, and it is hard to 

 believe that we command it with so little climbing. 

 The fact is, that the railway does most of the work for 

 us, the line from Hazel-grove to Disley being one con- 



