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luxuriantly wooded ; the oak, the elm, the alder, 

 and the ash flourish abundantly along its course ; 

 beneath the shade of whose united branches 

 the Derwent is sometimes secluded from the eye 

 of the traveller, and becomes a companion for 

 the ear alone ; then, suddenly emerging into day, 

 it spreads through a more open valley, or 

 winding round some huge mountain or rocky 

 precipice, reflects their dark sides as it glides 

 beneath. Sometimes this ever- varying and ever- 

 pleasing stream precipitates its foaming waters 

 over the rugged projections and rocky fragments 

 that interrupt its way : again the ruffled waves 

 subside, and the current steals smoothly and 

 gently through the vale, clear and almost im- 

 perceptible in motion." 



The Manifold is a good trout-stream. Its 

 waters are remarkably limpid, and they require 

 fine tackle and a light hand to deceive their 

 inhabitants. This river flows into the Dove. 



The Wye flows out of the hills in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Buxton. It then runs down to 

 Monsal-dale, the village of Ashford-in-the- Water, 

 to Bakewell, and through the grounds of Haddon 

 Hall, the property of the Duke of Eutland. At 

 a short distance from Haddon the Wye is joined 

 by the stream called Lathkill, on which a recent 

 tourist makes the following observations : 



