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XVIII. 

 A DERBYSHIRE TROUT-STREAM. 



How few people, thoroughly familiar with out-of-the- 

 way Alpine villages, or lonely Scandinavian fells and 

 fiords, are aware of the beauties of our own fair moors and 

 mountains ! How little do they know the wild grandeur 

 of country, not four hours' railway journey from the vast 

 Metropolis scenery which would make that of many a 

 foreign tourist resort seem tame and uninteresting by 

 comparison ! The Manchester express from St. Pancras, 

 in about four hours will set the traveller down amongst 

 the wild and beautiful mountain scenery of the Peak in 

 north Derbyshire. Should the visitor have a taste for 

 Alpine climbing, he may here serve a very respectable 

 apprenticeship. Let him follow one of the many roaring 

 trout-streams, from its junction with the turbulent 

 Derwent, up to its source amongst the hills. From the 

 wild plateau on the top of these peaks some of the finest 

 views in the north of England can be obtained, especially 

 so from that of rugged Kinder Scout, nearly two 

 thousand feet above sea level. From its junction with 



