THE YORKSHIRE LINES. 



"VTORKSHIRE comes in for its full share of the iron 

 roads that, like its influence and philanthropy, 

 flow on every side out of Manchester. The " Man- 

 chester and Sheffield ;" the London and North-western, 

 (through Staleybridge to Huddersfield, &c. ;) and the great 

 " Lancashire and Yorkshire," via Rochdale and the Tod 

 morden Valley, offer plenty of opportunities of escape in 

 a north-easterly direction, and facilities, in so doing, for 

 reaching entirely new and different scenes. When fairly 

 away from the town, all three lines move for considerable 

 portions of their courses along valleys shut in by high 

 hills, with lateral clefts innumerable. The summits 

 and slopes of these hills are in many parts moorland, 

 and as water accumulates fast upon their surfaces, the 

 scenery is at once grand in its elevations, and made 



