Keeping to the main line, the original "Sheffield and Manchester," half an hour carries us to Broadbottom and Mottram-in-Longdendale, where we stop in order to make acquaintance with the lively Etherowe, which here divides Cheshire from Derbyshire, running on to Compstall, where, as above stated, it enters the Goyt. The scenery all the way to the point of confluence is alluring. On the Cheshire side of the stream the slope is occupied in part by Bottoms-hall Wood, through which there is a footway to Werneth Low, and then to Hyde or Woodley, a very pleasant sufficiency for an afternoon. On the Derbyshire side, after crossing a few fields, Stirrup Wood forms a beautiful counterpoise to Bottoms-hall; and when through this we are upon Stirrup-benches, famous for profusion of the Oreads' fern--that fragrant one so fittingly dedicated to the nymphs who once upon a time danced on green slopes around Diana, Hinc atque hinc glomerantur Oreades. Botanists call it the _Lastrea Oreopteris_. It is well to be reminded by them that scientific nomenclature is something more than Greek and Latin, and a burden for the memory, and that all the best and oldest portion of it lies bosomed in poësy. The mythical Oreads themselves are not required, for we have better ones in our live companions; but of the memory of them it would be an irreparable loss to be despoiled. Above Stirrup-benches comes Ludworth Moor. Then far away, again up above, the grand mountain-terrace called Charlesworth Coombs, the semi-circular and denuded face of which is in some parts very nearly perpendicular, the ridge affording, yet once again, supreme views. On every side there is a tumultuous sea of mountain-crests, with intermixture of sweet green knolls, often wooded, in the relish of which, as upon Kinder, one thinks of the immortals in art and literature, Who never can be wholly known, But still their beauty grows.