It Is A Spring Or Well, Which In
General Flows Or Runs Underground Imperceptibly, And Then All At
Once Rushes
Forth with a mighty rumbling or subterranean noise,
which is said to have something musical in it, and overflows its
Banks; lastly Chatsworth, a palace or seat belonging to the Dukes of
Devonshire, at the foot of a mountain whose summit is covered with
eternal snow, and therefore always gives one the idea of winter, at
the same time that the most delightful spring blooms at its foot. I
can give you no further description of these latter wonders, as I
only know them by the account given me by others. They were the
subjects with which my guide, the shoemaker, entertained me during
our walk.
While this man was showing me everything within his knowledge that
he thought most interesting, he often expressed his admiration on
thinking how much of the world I had already seen; and the idea
excited in him so lively a desire to travel, that I had much to do
to reason him out of it. He could not help talking of it the whole
evening, and again and again protested that, had he not got a wife
and child, he would set off in the morning at daybreak along with
me; for here in Castleton there is but little to be earned by the
hardest labour or even genius. Provisions are not cheap, and in
short, there is no scope for exertion. This honest man was not yet
thirty.
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