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CHAPTER XV. 



SHEFFIELD AND ITS INDIVIDUALITY - THE COUNTRY, ABOVE GROUND 

 AND UNDERGROUND - WAKEF1ELD AND LEEDS WHARF VALE - 

 FARNLEY HALL - HAREOWGATE J RIPLEY CASTLE ; RIPON J CONSER- 

 VATISM OF COUNTRY TOWNS - FOUNTAIN ABBEY ; STUDLEY PARK - 

 HIEVAULX ABBEY - LORD FAVERSHAM'S 8HOBT-HORN STOCK. 



ROM Chatsworth I went on to Sheffield, crossing 

 _L a hilly moorland belonging to the Duke of 

 Rutland, and containing 10,000 acres in one solid 

 block. It was all covered with heather, and kept in 

 this wild, bleak condition for game. Here and there 

 well-cultivated farms, as it were, bit into this cold 

 waste, rescuing large, square morsels of land, and 

 making them glow with the warm flush and glory 

 of luxuriant harvests ; thus showing how such great 

 reaches of desert may be made to blossom like the 

 rose under the hand of human labor. 



Here is Sheffield, down here, sweltering, smoking, 

 and sweating, with face like the tan, under the walls 

 of these surrounding hills. Here live and labor 

 Briareus and Cyclops of modern mythology. Here 

 they, 



