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departure for CASTLETON, distant eight miles, or from 

 Manchester, in all, twenty-five. Perhaps it is best to go 

 by way of Chapel, and to return by Doveholes, the 

 roads, though similar, presenting considerable change 

 of scenery, and conveyances being more easily procur- 

 able at the former. An omnibus is said to meet every 

 train ; but when the party is large, vehicles must be 

 ordered beforehand. 



Soon after passing through Chapel, we come to the 

 celebrated " Ebbing and Flowing Well," a pool into 

 which the water runs by nine orifices from the hill at the 

 back. The activity of the well depends upon the 

 amount of rain shortly before ; hence it is not a place that 

 is ordinarily wished to be found otherwise than in repose. 

 The road winds among grand hills some would call 

 them desolate, because utterly treeless, but the look-out 

 is everywhere fine, and many pretty plants may be 

 noticed by the wayside, as saxifrages, the lilac scabious, 

 and the "melancholy thistle," with leaves that under- 

 neath are white as snow ; while in June the sheep-trod- 

 den pastures, right and left, are dotted with the bright 

 yellow of the mountain-pansy. 



Till the journey is nearly completed, no object of 

 special interest presents itself, and even Mam Tor, the 

 sight of which announces the speedy close, has little of 

 the romantic and kingly character with which fancy is 

 apt to invest that noted mound. The apex rises to the 

 height of 1350 feet above the sea, yet so great is the 



