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power, just as at home that is most valued which affec- 

 tion has added to simple necessaries. 



The return to Whaley is easy, and occupies not half 

 the time consumed in going-^first we move through the 

 green lane into the Kettleshulme road ; then along the 

 basal margin of the reservoir. The whole of the walk 

 will have been in Cheshire, the Goyt being here the 

 boundary of the county. 



The second of the two best Whaley rambles, or that to 

 Taxal, is discovered by going a short distance along the 

 Buxton road, and turning through a gate into the wood 

 upon the right. Crossing the Goyt, and ascending the 

 hill, we come to the unpretentious little church, and so 

 proceed upwards. On the slope above, beneath the 

 trees, are in August plenty of bilberries ; and from the 

 summit, through welcome openings among the branches, 

 we get stupendous and imposing views. Many of the 

 old trees are gray with lichens; and winding towards 

 the Kettleshulme road, which again is the homeward 

 track, if it be early autumn, the broken and precipitous 

 woodland is made lovely by tender and shining hair- 

 grasses and the blue campanula, while on the ledges the 

 foxgloves lift up glorious spikes of crimson. 



Half-a-dozen miles farther along this line is the station 

 for Chapel-en-le-Frith, and again a trifle farther is Dove- 

 holes station. Either of these is suitable as a point of 



