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and its baths, the centre of the most romantic limestone district in which the 

 Derwent clears its way through a succession of- grand defiles, one of which is com- 

 landed by the superb High Tor, rising to a height of 396 feet. The mineral 



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Fig. 119.— Derby. 

 From the Ordnance Suivey. Scale 1 : 63,3 



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waters of Matlock are largely charged with carbonate of lime, and they quickly 

 petrify any object placed in them. 



A few miles above Matlock we reach the confluence of the Wye and the Derwent. 

 On the former, beautifully seated upon a wooded slope, rises the ancient town of 

 Bakewell, near which is Haddon Hall, perhaps the finest specimen of a baronial 

 dwelling of the fifteenth century to be met with in England. At the head of the 



