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illustrious by wearing it through a brilliant life. It is 

 situated near the celebrated Sherwood Forest, and is 

 marked by many features of peculiar interest. One of 

 its noticeable celebrities is the house in which Lord 

 Chesterfield resided. It is now occupied by a Wes- 

 leyan minister, who elaborates his sermons in the 

 very room, I believe, in which that fashionable noble- 

 man penned his polite literature for youthful candidates 

 for the uppermost circles of society. In the centre 

 of the market place there is a magnificent monument 

 erected to the memory of the late Lord George 

 Bentinck, who was held in high esteem by the people 

 of the town and vicinity. The manufactures are pretty 

 much the same as in Nottingham. They turn out 

 a great production of raw material in red sandstone, 

 very much resembling our Portland, quite as fine, 

 hard and durable. Immense blocks of it are quarried 

 and conveyed to London and to all parts of the king- 

 dom. The town also supplies a vast amount of 

 moulding sand, of nearly the same color and con- 

 sistency as that we procure from Albany. I stopped 

 on my way into the town to take a turn through 

 the cemetery, which was very beautifully laid out, 

 and looked like a great garden lawn belted with 

 shrubbery, and illuminated with the variegated lamps 

 of flowers of every hue and breath. The meandering 



