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fcenery, and form a more rich and beauti- 

 ful curtain than the taller, the ftraggling, 

 and pale-hued willow. 



Matlock is not juftly called Nature's 

 rudeft child. If his rocks were without 

 clothing, he might properly be fo called. 

 Rude gives an idea of barrenneis, and Mat- 

 lock is luxuriantly umbraged ; much more 

 luxuriantly than Dove- Dale ; while every 

 traveller through Derbyshire muft recollect, 

 how rich and fmiling the Matlock-fcenery, 

 compared to the favage magnificence of 

 Eyam-Dale, commonly, though not pro- 

 perly, called Middleton-Dale. 



There, indeed, we fee rocks piled on 

 rocks, unfoliaged and frowning. They 

 form a wall, of vaft height, on either 

 fide the white limeftone bottom of that 

 deep and narrow valley, with the little 

 fparkling rill which fpeeds through it. 



In feveral reaches of the curves, made 

 by this Salvatorial Dale, it is from the 



