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made their abode here. In these rocks the frosts of thousands 

 of winters, and the lightnings of as many summers have made 

 numerous fissures, and split them asunder in many places. 

 We find the same species of saxatile and parasitic plants clus- 

 tering about them which are found among the ruins of art. 

 The forest trees have inserted their roots into their crevices, 

 and oaks that have stood for centuries nod their heads over 

 the brink of these precipices, and cast a gloomier shade into 

 the valleys below. Nothing can be more picturesque than 

 some of these ruins of nature that want only the historical 

 associations connected with the ruins of temples and palaces 

 to render them equally interesting. 



Man's natural love of mystery, and his proneness to indulge 

 in that emotion of grandeur and infinity that flows from the 

 sight of anything invalued in the dimness of remote ages of 

 the past, are one cause of the intense interest felt in the study 

 of geology. With a deep feeling of awe we trace the foot- 

 prints of those unknown animals which were the denizens of 

 a former world. The mind " is roused to profound contem- 

 plation at the sight of piles of rocks as high as the clouds, 

 recumbent on a bed of fern, and at finding the remains of 

 animals that once sported on the summits of other Alps, now 

 buried beneath the very base and foundation of ours." 



- EUROPEAN PARKS, NO. III. 



BY HOWARD DANIELS, ARCIilTECT, N. Y. 

 CHATSWORTH. 



On the morning of the 11th September, I left Sheffield, in 

 a coach, with twenty passengers, (six inside and fourteen out,) 

 for Chatsworth ; we passed over a very hilly and picturesque 

 country ; a portion being the East Moor of Cheshire, very 

 rocky in places, and mostly covered with ferns and heaths, 

 with scarcely a tree in a thousand acres. These moors are 

 valuable only for breeding hares, rabbits, grouse, partridges, 

 &c., which are very numerous. Most of the passengers were 



