edge of Leicefterlhire, near Ticknall, and
probably from fome other places adjacent.
North of Derby large mountains are formed
in the neighbourhood of Wirkfworth,Crom-
ford, Matlock, Winfter, Afhford, the banks
of the river Wye, a large tradt from Afhford
to Buxton, in which is the beautiful valley
of Monfaldale, CheeTor, and a variety of
places that prefent as fine rock fcenery
as almoft any country can boaft of, not
forgetting in the more weftern part, the
beautiful valley of Dovedale, where the
rocks are Angularly picturefque.
The wild fcenery of Middleton dale, and
the Winnets on approaching Caftleton from
the north, is the admiration of vifitors,
and the irregularity is beyond defcription.
The mountains which form one fide of the
beautiful valley of Caftleton, are called,
Longcliff, Cawler, and the Red Seats:
they are full of veins of lead ore, and range
from
from thence, fouth, 8 or io miles; fouth-
weft of Caftleton, the limeftone mountains
range to Buxton, over Peak Foreft, where
is produced the fineft lime.
The foil above this ftratum is converted
to all the purpofes of agriculture ; it affords
inoft.excellent pafture and grafs lands, and
produces fine crops of corn. The mountains
are ufually ftored with cattle, being
inconvenient for the purpofe of tillage.
Their ftratification particularly engaged the
late Mr. Whitehurft’s attention, efpecially
about the neighbourhood of Matlock, where
he fays (according to his ideas of the formation
of the earth) they take an undulating
form for a confiderable diftance,
in which I conceive he was milled, by not
more clofely examining the fubftance. The
ftratification of the high Tor and adjoining
mountains, inclines into the rock or to the
eaft, probably as much as one foot in fix,
forming