Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1809 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER X. Four Old Maidens at Mellor. Kinder Scout Mountain and Kinder. Humours of Hayfield Fair. Park Hall. Chapel-en-le-Frith. A Lawyer's classical Advertisement hinted at. Bowden Hall. Bradthaw Hall. Human Skull at Tunstead. Bank Hall. Ebbing and Flowing Well, and, its Cause. Flden Hole. OUR road to Buxton, from Mottram, lay through Mellor, noted for four maiden sisters living together in one house; the youngest of whom is upwards of seventy years of age. I was informed that none of them, except one, had ever slept a night from home in the course of their whole lives, and that they had lately buried an old favourite horse, aged twenty four, with particular funeral pomp. The tapestry of their apartments is composed of little pieces of print, patched together by their own maiden hands;--. and on the score of economy, none can equal them;--they have all smoked, promiscuously, out of the same pipe, for ten years past Near this place are the extensive cotton works of Samuel Oldknow, Esq. Lieut.-Colonel of the High Peak Volunteers. The scenery around is extremely pleasing and romantic. Ollerset Lodge, the genteel residence of Mas. Nbwton, whose charitable donations will be long remembered with gratitude by the poor, is also situated in this neighbourhood. Kinder Scout, on the left, is a very high mountain, from which there is an extensive prospect of the vicinities of Manchester, Liverpool, and part of North Wales. Having traversed its summit, and the day coming on rainy, I was glad to descend by a rugged path called Blagshaws, into the Vale of Kinder, having passed by the Downfall, or the Old Woman Brewing, as it is called; where the water is often raised on its fall, by the western winds, and dispersed in spray to a surprizing height....
