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they gradually enter the red marl, but not 

 without bringing with them gritstone sand, and 

 limestone pebbles, which are in some places 

 along their course thickly and extensively de- 

 posited. Even where the Dove empties itself 

 into the Trent, at Newton- Solney Ford, the 

 red marl is covered with deposits of quartz- 

 sand and gravel, which the stream has carried 

 onward from the abrupt and mountainous 

 tracts through which it has passed. 



" The picturesque beauty of the banks of the 

 Dove has been the repeated theme of travel- 

 lers, whether painters or poets. Mr. Rhodes, 

 to whose elegant work we [to wit, Mr. Glover] 

 are already indebted for descriptive extracts of 

 the richest character, says, 'The river Dove 

 is one of the most beautiful streams that ever 

 gave a charm to landscape; and while pass- 

 ing along the first, and least picturesque 

 divisions of the dale,* the ear was soothed 

 with its murmurings, and the eye delighted 

 with the brilliancy of its waters: in some 

 places it flows smoothly and solemnly along, 

 but never slowly; in others, its motion is 

 rapid, impetuous, and even turbulent. The 



* Mr. Rhodes, the reader is requested to observe, is 

 merely speaking of the Dove, as seen in its meandering 

 through Dove-dale. This gentleman's pencil, in the 

 present instance, is painting with colours rather too warm. 



