Dales, Scenery, Fishing Streams, And Mines Of Derbyshire - Tapa dura

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It is a most precise and useful Guide to the ancient and noble residences, which short excursions around the famous Peak offer for the Tourist sobservation. Literary Gazette. It is written throughout in an elegant style, and in the best Christian spirit. Metropolitan Magazine. The merits of this Guide to the more interesting scenery of Derbyshire, may be fairly estimated from the quickness with which it has reached its present Sixth Edition. It directs the movements of the visitors to those romantic regions, over which the Peak predominates, with a minuteness of detail from which no object worthy of note seems permitted to escape. In addition to other new matter with which this edition has been enriched, an article on the Fluor Spar, from which so many ornamental works of Sculpture have been formed, is particularly deserving of attention. Morning Herald. The Sixth Edition of this volume gives it a title to some consideration. It is not a mere guide-book, but contains a full account of the natural varieties of Derbyshire, and the reflections are of a kind which is not frequently met with in such works. It may safely be recommended as a travelling companion, or a volume of reference, to those who wish acquaintance with that part of the kingdom. Record. Mr. A dams book is of a very different kind to the generality of Guide-B ooks :it bears the stamp of extensive and accurate knowledge, and of a cultivated and refined understanding. Edinburgh Observer. The book (G em) is handsomely got up, and unquestionably stands alone as a full and complete descriptive Guide to all that is beautiful and worthy of attention in our county a county rich to excess in the loveliness and sublimities of nature. Derby Mercury. The numerous picturesque beauties and wonders with which this district abounds, are well pointed out and faithfully described by the A uthor. Nottingham Journa
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