leasure in displaying, as visitors can have in examining, his most
beautiful domains, which is saying a great deal.

Haddon Hall, one of the most perfect specimens of a mansion of the fifteenth
and sixteenth centuries, is situated on the left bank of the Wye, at a short
distance from Bakewell. The "interiors" of Mr. Joseph Nash have rendered the
beauties of the architecture of Haddon Hall well known, but it also enjoys
the advantage of a very fine situation, backed by old trees. It is the
property of the Duke of Rutland, uninhabited, but perfectly preserved. Good
fishing is to be obtained near Bakewell, through the landlord of the hotel.

BUXTON may be the next halt, the Leamington of Manchester, but although more
picturesquely situated, it has not enjoyed anything like the tide of
prosperity which has flowed for the Warwickshire watering place. The thermal
waters of Buxton have been celebrated from the time of the Romans.

The town is situated in a deep basin, surrounded by bleak hills and barren
moors, in strong contrast to the verdant valley in which the village of
Matlock lies. The only entrance to and exit from this basin is by a narrow
ravine, through which the river Wye flows on its way to join the Derwent
toward Bakewell.

The highest mountains in Derbyshire are close at hand, one of which is one
thousand feet above the valley in which Buxton stands, and two thousand one
hundred feet higher than the town of Derby. From this mountain four rivers
rise, the Wye, the Dove, the Goyt, and the Dean.

Buxton consists of a new and old town. In the old town is a hall, in which
Mary Queen of Scots lodged whilst visiting the Buxton waters for her health,
as a prisoner under charge of the Earl of Shrewsbury. A Latin distich, a
farewell to Buxton, scratched on the window of one of the rooms, is
attributed to the hand of that unhappy princess.

The new part of the town commences with the Crescent, which contains two
houses, a library, an assembly-room, a news-room, baths, and other buildings,
and is one of the finest structures of the kind in the kingdom. The stables,
on a magnificent scale, contain a covered ride, a hundred and sixty feet
long. This immense pile was built by the late Duke of Devonshire in 1781,
and cost 120,000 pounds.

The public baths are very numerous and elegant; and indeed every comfort and
luxury is to be obtained there by invalids and semi-invalids, except that
perpetual atmosphere of am