halters and nosebags, you are prepared for every eventuality. To other
impedimenta it is not amiss to add a couple of light saddles, so that, if
necessary, some of the party may ride to any particular spot.

This mode of travelling is particularly well suited for Derbyshire, Wales,
Devonshire, and all counties where there are beautiful spots worth visiting
to which there are no regular conveyances, and which, indeed, are often only
accidentally discovered. By this mode of travelling you are rendered
perfectly independent of time and taverns, so long as you reach an inn in
time to go to bed; for you can carry all needful provant for both man and
beast with you.

Derbyshire is in every respect one of the most beautiful counties in England,
and deserves a closer investigation than can be obtained from the outside of
a coach, much less from the windows of a flying train, whenever the promised
railway line, which we propose to traverse, shall be completed.

Derbyshire possesses two kinds of scenery totally distinct in character, but
both remarkably picturesque, several natural curiosities of a very striking
character, two very pleasant bath towns,--Buxton and Matlock; beside the
antiquarian glories of Hardwicke and Haddon, and the palatial magnificence of
Chatsworth, with its porticoes, its fountains, its pleasure grounds, its
Victoria Regia, and the House of Glass that has been the means of making
Joseph Paxton famous all over the civilized world.

While the country round the Peak is wild, bare, and rugged, the line of
valleys and dales on which lies the road from Matlock to Burton and
Manchester, presents the most charming series of pictures of undulating
woodland scenery, adorned by mansions and cottages, that it is possible to
imagine. The high road continually runs along the steep side of valleys,--on
one side are thick coverts climbing the rocky hill-sides, all variegated with
wild flowers, briars, and brushwood; on the other side, sometimes on a level
with the road, sometimes far below, a river winds and foams and brawls along;
if lost for a short distance, again coming in sight of the road, enlivening
and refreshing the scene.

In the main avenue of the Crystal Palace, Mr. Carrington exhibited a model
which represented with extraordinary accuracy all this country, and which
gave a very exact picture of Derbyshire, with all the undulations of its
hills and rivers worked to a scale. Those who have never been in