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families that bear the same name as the place in which 

 they reside.* With Radcliffe also is connected the fam- 

 ous and doleful legend of the Lady Isabel, daughter of 

 one Sir William de RadclyfTe, the "white doe," who, as 

 the aborigines still relate, was " put in the pie : " 



" < tfeen," crieb out tfie #cirtuon-&0)t>e, 



Ks loub as f oub migfct 6i>e, 

 "< sate fecr fife, goob master coofe, 



?Cnb mahe gour ppe# of me ! " f 



Running on, and through Bury, we come to SUMMERSEAT, 

 distant, altogether, from Manchester, about thirteen miles. 

 The Irwell, which we lost sight of soon after crossing it 

 at Clifton, here reappears, winding amid trees and cliffs. 

 For about two miles at this part of its course, the eastern 

 side of the valley is abundantly wooded, and although 

 broken by ravines, a very pleasant sylvan walk is obtain- 

 able along it as far as Ramsbottom. Wild raspberries grow 

 there, and ferns, and tall and graceful grasses that make 

 arches with their hair-like branches ; and on the sunward 

 edges of the steep brows above the river, where we sit 

 down to rest and talk, in September it is sweet to note 

 the lilac blossoms of the heather, and the bells of the 

 blue campanula. Up above, upon the hill-top, is "Grant's 

 Tower," commemorative of the celebrated men whose 



* Britannia, p. 128 (folio edition of 1789.) See this volume, pp. 

 127-145, for much curious and original information upon Lanca- 

 shire. Chetham Library. 



t See the ballad, (from a black-letter copy in the British Mu- 

 seum,) in Percy's " Reliques of Ancient English Poetry," p. 234. 

 (Bohn's edition. 1859.) 



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