DER 
of Derby, 8vo. Pilkington’s Hiftory of oe 2 vols. 
vo. Beauties of England.and Wales, vol. iv 
ERBY, a townfhip of America, in Orleans county, Ver- 
mont, on n the N. line of the ftate, on the - fhore of lake 
: w Haven coun- 
-en of Naugatuc ck = Ho fatonick rivers. This t 
“was de in 1665, a 
d has an academy. tr hi 
“Weft Indies, and in its vicinity are mills on the 
‘gatuck, and iron as well as other works on Eight-mile river, 
that falls into the ssn a which is navigable for 12 
miles to this towr. 1878 inhabitants. 
Dersy en Teper and Lower, are fituated in 
elaware county, P n ia; the former containing 862, 
the latter ¢80 inhabitants ; feven miles S.W. of Philadet- 
phia. 
aed ee See BroncHOCEL 
¥ Canal is the parliamentary name of a pools 
n the 
to wn 
to Horfley and Small-y Mil collieries. © 
branch ‘from the town of Derby to the Erewafh canal, near 
‘Sandyacre. See Canat. 
DERBYSHIRE is a county fituated nearly in the mid- 
de of England, at an equal diftance from the eaftern and 
Yorkthire and Chefhire 
‘to meafure about §5 miles from north to fouth; and 38 in an 
-oppofite’ dire&tion, and comprifes nearly 720,640 acres of © 
‘land. re cultivated arable and 
ic fly of blea 
Thefe. comprehend 33,191 houfes, and 
-about 161,142 inhabitants: « - 
‘The northern and fouthern parts of this county exhibit a 
‘ftriking d fference and contraft in geographical features: as 
‘the former abounds with hill and we and the latter ate aay a 
ane the latt-r the wapentake, or 
eminences in this dittri€&t are the sca ct Ax- a an 
The-fo mer is fituated near Buxton, and w 
to be about 21c0 fest higher 
oo feet above the valley in 
than the town t 10 
which Baxton-hall ftands::the e'evation of Kinder-fcont, 
though | a baal atcertained is fup ppo ofe i greater, 
“The High Pca sa is a region of bleak’ barrenheights, and 
‘long see nd ed m — see fperfed with deep sae through 
‘which sais {mall Neen take their courfe. é the fcenery 
is in mzny- parts romantic and eines : eh: on the 
hee. inferior in pidturefque effe& to that of other moun- 
“tainous countries. Beauty, indeed, is only refident in’ the 
vallies; the high aa appearing dreary and deftitute of © 
entertainment; and in m any fituations not a fingle houfe or 
tree is to be en. to divert the eye of the traveller, or relieve 
-the wearinefs that arifes from the contemplation of fterility i 
and nakednefs. “The Low Peak abounds with eminences of - 
various height and extent. ee ie Alport, near 
Wirkfworth, and Crich-Cliff, are the moft elevated, -an 
command very extenfive profpe ds : fons Alport, on a clear 
day, the Wrekin in Shropfhire may be sc Sr oaaiee n 
re eatt fide of the county there is alfo a high ridge of co 
fiderable ri beginning to the fouth of Hardwick, . ane 
Vow, A 
sane I by the conflu- | 
DER 
Sone in another dire@tion to the extremity of the 
Datel where it enters Yorkfhire. The fouthern part of 
ire is in general a oie well cultivated, but 
prefent no particular ee of {ce € mountainous 
f unt ui 
unkin ly. 
and others feldom ripen till very late in ear. he at~ 
mofphere is, eae fal pure ri healthful aa the h 
ations are generally fre epi emi 
agues and fevers fometines pend | in the vallie 
however, en in thefe parts, i even as 7 
Derby ; ee is ie Bronchocele or Derby-neck : 
is an sient of the glands of the throat; and isa fe 
gree of the fame difeafe that is known in the Alps, and 
other mountainous tra€ts. It is alfo prevalent in fome parts 
of Sumatra und the Eatt Indies, 
The moft common foil of Derbyfhire is a reddith clay, or 
marl; the fouthern diflri& is in general compof-d of it, 
having little or no {tone near the furface : but fome parts of 
this tra are interfperfed with {mall beds of fand or avers 3 
and in n moitt fituations, land of a blackifh colour, and loo 
is 
- found. great Ge the feathers and middle part of the ex- 
terfive traG of limeftone, which lies on the be weft fide 
of the-county. Its colouring principle is iron; but its qua- 
lity is very various in different fituations: in fome it contains 
much calcareous earth; in others it aaeks not effervefce with 
acids. The large tra@ on the eattern fide of the county, 
which extends from Stanton, Dale, and Morley, to the 
borders a Yorkshire, and abounds with coal, is covered with 
-acla arious colours, black, grev, brown, and yellow, 
but parcel, the laft ; and is in fume places mixed with a 
large proportion o Similar foil is a: 2 met sdeagealny in 
the northern extremity ot the county ; € parts 
found nearly 
parts, but particularly i in the parifhes of Grefley and Repton, 
where the farmers are induced to grow it, by the confump~ 
-tion of malt in the neighbouring town of Bur:on, whofe fa- 
“mous ale has acquired {uch extenfive celebrity. The whole 
produce has’ been calculated at about 5000 quarters annually, 
On the eaftern fide of the county the land is chiefly under 
sl 3 but the eudiand traéts have a mixture of pafture and 
: the moors in this diftri@ are 
h Peak the 
maller hamed 
Li tle attention has 
be een paid to the cultivation of artificial grafles: but an uns 
mmon fpecies of culture, as a field crop, here pragtifed is 
en of chamomiles about 200 acres ate devcted -to its 
3N growth. 
