He Told
Me He Could Not Sufficiently Wonder At The Badness Of The Work, For
They Were Shoes I Had Brought From Germany.
Notwithstanding this,
he undertook, as he had no new ones ready, to mend them for me as
well as he could.
This led me to make a very agreeable acquaintance
with this shoemaker; for when I expressed to him my admiration of
the cavern, it pleased him greatly that in so insignificant a place
as Castleton there should be anything which could inspire people
with astonishment, who came from such distant countries; and
thereupon offered to take a walk with me, to show me, at no great
distance, the famous mountain called Mam Tor, which is reckoned
among the things of most note in Derbyshire.
This mountain is covered with verdure on its summit and sides; but
at the end it is a steep precipice. The middle part does not, like
other mountains, consist of rock, but of a loose earth, which gives
way, and either rolls from the top of the precipice in little
pieces, or tears itself loose in large masses, and falls with a
thundering crash, thus forming a hill on its side which is
continually increasing.
From these circumstances probably is derived the name of Mam Tor,
which literally signifies Mother Hill; for Tor is either an
abbreviation of, or the old word for, Tower, and means not only a
lofty building, but any eminence. Mam is a familiar term, that
obtains in all languages, for Mother; and this mountain, like a
mother, produces several other small hills.
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