Here The Hills Gradually
Disappeared; And My Journey Now Lay Through Meadow Grounds And
Cultivated Fields.
I must here inform you that the word Peake, or Pike, in old English
signifies a point or summit.
The Peak of Derbyshire, therefore,
means that part of the country which is hilly, or where the
mountains are highest.
Towards noon I again came to an eminence, where I found but one
single solitary inn, which had a singular inscription on its sign.
It was in rhyme, and I remember only that it ended with these words,
"Refresh, and then go on." "Entertainment for man and horse." This
I have seen on several signs, but the most common, at all the lesser
ale-houses, is, "A. B. C. or D. dealer in foreign spirituous
liquors."
I dined here on cold meat and salad. This, or else eggs and salad,
was my usual supper, and my dinner too, at the inns at which I
stopped. It was but seldom that I had the good fortune to get
anything hot. The salad, for which they brought me all the
ingredients, I was always obliged to dress myself. This, I believe,
is always done in England.
The road was now tolerably pleasant, but the country seemed here to
be uniform and unvaried, even to dulness. However, it was a very
fine evening, and as I passed through a village just before sunset
several people who met me accosted me with a phrase which, at first,
I thought odd, but which I now think civil, if not polite.
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