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Title: The earth and its inhabitants ..
Year: 1882 (1880s)
Authors: Reclus, Elisée, 1830-1905 Ravenstein, Ernest George, 1834-1913 Keane, Augustus Henry, 1833-1912
Subjects: Geography
Publisher: New York : D. Appleton and Company
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suburb of Litchurch, engage in the manu-facture of porcelain and of spar ornaments. It is here the Midland Railway Com-pany has established its head-quarters, its workshops occupying a considerable area.A monument has been erected to H. Cavendish, the discoverer of the chemicalconstituents of air, in the church of All Saints. Flamsteed, the astronomer, wasborn in the neighbouring village of Denby. Ascending the Derwent, we reach Belper, whose inhabitants find emplojonenbin cotton and hosiery mills and in nail-making. Still proceeding on our journeyup a valley which increases in beauty with every step we take, we reach Matlock* Ch. Dupin, Force commerciale de la Grande Bretagne. DERBYSHIEE. 243 and its baths, the centre of the most romantic limestone district in which theDerwent clears its way through a succession of grand defiles, one of which is com-manded by the superb High Tor, rising to a height of 396 feet. The mineral Fig. 119.—Derby.From the Ordnance Survey. Scale 1 : 63,366.
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IMile. waters of Matlock are largely charged with carbonate of lime, and they quicklypetrify 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 ofBaheiceU, near which is Haddon Hall, perhaps the finest specimen of b. baronialdwelling of the fifteenth century to be met with in England. At the head of the 244 THE BEITISH ISLES. Wye, in a bleak but healtby situation 1,100 feet above the level of tbe sea, standsBuxton, which has been a place of resort for three hundred years on account of thevirtues of its mineral waters, but owes something, too, to the vicinity of the greatcity of Manchester Meadows, parks, and avenues of trees environ the sumptuousdwellings set apart for invalids, whilst, far below, the Wye courses through asavage defile, the entrance to which is guarded by the Chee Tor, a noble rock 300feet in height. Returning to the Derwent, we soon reach

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