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much higher and bigger than St. Paul's Church 

 before it was burnt." 



And then Walton goes on : 



" And this Dove, being opposed by one of 

 the highest of them, has at last forced itself 

 a way through it, and after a mite's concealment 

 appears again with more glory and beauty than 

 before that opposition, running through the 

 most pleasant valleys and most fruitful meadows 

 that this nation can justly boast of." 



"This," says Mr. Thorne, "is an entire 

 mistake. The Dove is nowhere concealed^ and 

 it is not easy to tell how Walton could have so 

 erred." 



My impression is, that in using the word 

 concealment Walton did not mean hidden 

 underground like the Manifold, but that it is 

 obscured by those " mighty rocks " and woods 

 between which its sinuous course is hidden. 



Beresford Dale possesses beauties of its own, 

 which have been so often described by more 

 gifted pens than mine, that I need not make an 

 attempt which could only end in failure. The 

 only incident that interrupted our walk dowq 



