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here is when in wet weather, or after a storm, the wind 

 blows strongly from the W.S.W. "Coming from the 

 direction of Hayfield, it sweeps over the Upper Moor 

 and the bare backs of the bleak Blackshaws, and beating 

 against the high flanking walls of rock is concentrated 

 with prodigious power into the angle of the mountain, 

 forcing back the whole volume of the cascade, and carry- 

 ing it up in most fantastic and beautiful lambent forms, 

 which are driven back again as heavy rain and mist for 

 half a mile across the bog, then perhaps to return to be 

 shivered into spray once more, unless in some momentary 

 lull the torrent rushes down in huge volume." " Some- 

 times," he adds, "in winter, the fall, with the huge walls 

 of rock flanking its sides, becomes one mass of icy 

 stalactites, which as the sun declines present a magnifi- 

 cent spectacle." According to Mr. H. B. Biden, in Notes 

 and Queries, Feb. i6th, 1878, though other writers think 

 differently, and, as it seems to us, less reasonably, it is 

 to the downfall that Kinder Scout owes its name. Kin- 

 (cin)-dwr-scwd, he tells us, in Cymraeg signifies "High 

 water cataract." 



Keeping to the main line, the original " Sheffield and 

 Manchester," half an hour carries us to Broadbottom 

 and Mottram-in-Longdendale, where we stop in order to 

 make acquaintance with the lively Etherowe, which here 

 divides Cheshire from Derbyshire, running on to Comp- 

 stall, where, as above stated, it enters the Goyt. The 

 scenery all the way to the point of confluence is alluring. 

 On the Cheshire side of the stream the slope is occupied 



