four beautiful Ionic columns. The north and east sides, in general style and richness of ornament correspond with the other two. The roof is flat and crowned with a balustrade, surmounted with urns, bell vases and statues. But notwithstanding the beauty of this part of the House, its situation was not altogether free from objection; as Mr. Loudon observes, it was "not situated on a platform of adequate size-a square pile of building in such a situation is less suitable than a lengthy one." This objection has been entirely removed by the erection of the north wing, which must have been contemplated by his Grace and the eminent architect who planned it; and this may be another reason why the whole of the structure was designed on one side to obtain this fine extension, whatever may have been the original object, Chatsworth has a bold, magnificent, and splendid appearance, especially from the north.

The whole of the north wing has been erected since the year 1820. The Dining Room was completed in 1832, a few days prior to the memorable visit of our youthful Sovereign already noticed. The Sculpture Gallery was finished soon after this, and now the whole suit may be said to be finished, with the exception of the arrangement of the pictures in the Ball Room. Since the above period his Grace has made many important alterations both internally and externally of the great Quadrangle; the more recent of which are only about being completed, already glanced at in our observations on the Drawing Rooms. Having extended our remarks to a far greater length than we originally intended, we must bid adieu to Chatsworth for the present, not forgetting however to express our best thanks generally for the kindness, urbanity, and attention shewn us on all occasions, whenever it has been our lot to visit Chatsworth. These are due particularly to Mrs. Gregory, the respected housekeeper, who has had the care of this noble mansion for many years; and Miss Bown, her niece.

The gardens appropriated to the growth of fruit and vegetables are considerably to the north of the House,

on the road to Baslow, and close by the river; they extend over an area of twelve acres, and furnished with 22 hot-houses and numerous forcing pits, superintended by Mr. Paxton, and filled with the choicest delicacies of the vegetable world.*

Delighted with our visit, we soon reached our Inn, and after obtaining some refreshment, which we found to be of most excellent quality, we proceeded on our tour to Ashford and the head of Monsall Dale, intending to take Bakewell and Haddon in our way home.The road is on the ascent from Edensor Inn, which has been altered and materially improved of late years by his Grace, by which he has made vast additions to his Park. On attaining the elevated ground, the ridges and peaks of the moorland, which were partly hid by the beautiful knolls of the park, were laid open before

* In the furthest part of the Italian Garden (west front) there is a British Oak growing most luxuriantly, planted by the Princess Victoria our present gracious Queen, in commemoration of her visit in 1832, and an American Chestnut, by her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent.

There are one or two alterations in the arrangement of several things since our last visit that must be noticed, indeed it is impossible to give a correct detail of the actual localities of many things as continued changes are being made, and will be until the entire completion of all the alterations which are now going on in Chatsworth House.-The Diana is removed from the Sculpture Gallery into the small Temple in the Flower Garden. The Busts of the Emperor Nicholas and his Empress will be found on each side on entering the Gallery, and the fine Bust of Canning, by Canova, is near to and on the same side as the Lucius Verus.-The green porphyry Vase is placed on a square red Egpytian porphyry pedestal, and the Serpentile Column is surmounted by a reeded black marble Derbyshire Vase. The Germanicus and Agrippina noticed, in the Sub-Hall (in page 94) as "Heads," are full-length figures, antiques, splendidly done. In this Hall there are also twelve antique Busts, most of them arranged on the mantle-pieces-one is a Bronze Bust of Socrates.-Homer, Sappho, Venus, Faninis, Polius Augustus, &c., are amongst the number sculptured in marble. A mistake we unintentionally fell into respecting the situation of the chandeliers in our remarks (page 96) on the suit of rooms in the north wing, we beg to correct. They are suspended in the Sculpture Gallery, not the Dining room as there stated. The fine white marble Vase, on the top of the steps leading to the Green House, has the "Judgment of Paris" sculptured on it-the inscription, copied (page 98), is on the rim.

In the Sculpture Gallery there are two red Porphyry Tables, instead of one, with Busts at each end, and a black obelisk in the centre. These are unique.

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us, in all their bleakness, loftiness, and massive outline skirting the horizon to the east and north for many miles. -The crags of the grit are most imposing,-having such a gloomy appearance. The bare faces, and the broken fragments of which strewed thickly like hailstones on the shelving sides of their elevated escarpments, and in the deep ravines which traverse them, assume a very dark colour by oxydation, and owing partly to the decayed moss and heath which covers them. This is particularly the case on each side of the road seen to the eastward, which wends its way under the black crags and over the high moors to Sheffield. Tracing the ridges to the northward, the eye is carried forward to Calver, Middleton Dale, and to the high mountains of the Peak by Castleton; to the westward the bold limestone ridge of Longstone Edge, is very striking. The road divides here, one downwards to the left, takes the traveller to the village of Baslow, which is seen below; the spire of the church is a pretty object, but our road led to the right, over the high ground by Pilsley village, which we speedily passed, and in succession through a beautiful country we crossed the Sheffield and Bakewell road; then further on, that leading to Hassop, where Lord Newburgh has a fine seat about a mile to the right, under Longstone Edge, the grounds stretching to the road side, a cottage or two-one very pretty, belonging to one of the Duke's keepers, then the toll bar, and a farm to the right; after leaving this the road divides-ours lay to the left. We then soon passed the seat of Samuel Coltman, Esq. (Thornbridge House) on the high ground to the right, near by the village of Longstone, and on our left Sydney Smithers', Esq., Steward to the Duke of Devonshire (Church Dale House,) and before enteing Ashford, on the brow of the hill looking to the south stands Ashford Hall. From Ashford, taking the road which is almost opposite to the "Devonshire Arms Inn," we soon reached Monsal Dale, which we shall now attempt to describe. The effect on the minds of my friends was most powerful. The head of the Dale is.

only about two miles from Ashford on the Castleton road.

MONSAL DALE

Exhibits all those features of quiet, secluded, and sylvan beauty, which are so highly calculated to draw out, and enchant the reflecting mind. It still retains the same artless simplicity and unaffected loveliness of character it did centuries ago. Its meandering stream flowing sweetly amongst; and irregating the beautiful meadows on either side of its course, which, being completely shut in, and screened from the wintry blast by lofty mountains, seem to possess a continual vernal beauty, and which, contrasted with the bare acclivities that bound it, thinly covered with hazels and hawthorns, a scanty herbage, and sterile patches of" shingle" or broken fragments tumbled from the heights; occuring at intervals, very much enhance the interest of this incomparable Dale. The latter is chiefly its character on entering from the Buxton road; accessible only by a rough winding uneven footpath on the left of the stream, now and then leading through the brushwood which occurs in thick clusters. On advancing considerably into the Dale from this point we arrive at the rustic bridge formed of rude pieces of wood resting on rough piles of stones, through which the river ripples and flows most beautifully-close by this is a small farm in one of the most sequestered spots imaginable, calling forth from its very position that class of associations so delightful to the human mind and which invest simple nature, and primitive things, with a transcendant interest. But if Monsall Dale approached from the south be thus affecting to a stranger, who can describe his feelings, when advancing from Castleton on the descent of Longstone Edge, he is suddenly brought upon the verge of the Dale and has the whole of its beauty laid instantly before him. The "Wye," like a silver thread taking many a mazy turn through its ever blooming meadows, clus

tered and enriched with the willow, hawthorn, and mountain ash. The little farm, the only human habitation within view-groups of cattle faring sumptuously on the banks of the lovely stream, enjoying with the tenants of this spot a calm and sweet repose, unruffled by the intrusion of the world's petty cavils and ever conflicting elements. All this laid far beneath the eye, bounded right and left by apparently inaccessible mountains and completely barred in the distance by the lofty moors of Taddington might induce the beholder to fancy himself transported, as if by magic to one of the "Oasis” of the desert; those luxuriant and verdant spots that are hailed with a shout of triumph by the weary and thirsty traveller, where he can repose under the shade of the palm tree and feast in peace, quietly reflecting on the fatigues and perils he has encountered-or, if the mood suits him better, he may ramble at will and with equal pleasure amongst the arcadias of classic Greece, and fancy he hears the simple minstrelsy of the mountain shepherd, the short but pithy aphorisms of the Stoic inculcating his rigid lessons of patient endurance as the summum bonum" of human felicity,- -or the more lofty minded Philosopher with the "ken" of inspiration bursting the thick veil of ignorance which then enveloped a world, and pointing out "the day star" of genuine science, and that" Sun of righteousness" which was soon to dawn on our spiritual hemisphere to illumine a world.* Or lastly he may circumscribe his notions to more modern eras and glance over the beautiful pages of the great Leviathan of Literature in the 18th century, and suppose the imaginary dwelling place of a "Rasselas," actually realized in the lovely Dale before him.

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From the Buxton road, the Dale is entered from the south which takes a northerly direction for nearly half a mile, then runs eastward about a mile, and again resuming its original course northward it joins Miller's Dale. At the top of this is the celebrated "Chee Tor," a bold,

The sublime Socrates declared his belief in the necessity and certainty of a divine Teacher having sent from on high.