The Ports, Harbours, Watering-places and Picturesque Scenery of Great Britain Vol. 2Finden, W. (William)
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The Ports, Harbours, Watering-places and Picturesque Scenery of Great Britain Vol. 2
Finden, W. (William)
Coasts -- Great Britain -- Pictorial works; Great Britain -- Pictorial works
The Lighthouse is constructed of Anglesey marble, and is considered a
masterpiece of its kind. It rises about ninety feet above the rock; each
stone is worked to a given geometrical form, and made to lock and
dovetail with those adjoining with great accuracy. The whole is cemented
together by a liquid volcanic substance brought from the vicinity of
Mount Ætna, which, in the course of time, becomes as hard as marble. The
lantern is illuminated by revolving lights--two of which are brilliantly
white, and the other of a deep red. The work is from the design of Mr.
Foster, and executed by Mr. Tomkinson, at an expense to the Liverpool
Corporation of twenty-seven thousand five hundred pounds.
[Illustration: MATLOCK BATH.]
MATLOCK,
DERBYSHIRE.
"To MATLOCK'S calm, sequester'd vale
Bear that maiden, faint and pale!
There--'mid streams like music flowing,
There--'mid flowers profusely blowing,
Health and beauty shall return,
And snatch a victim from the urn."
The reputation of the Matlock water is supported by the recorded
testimony of more than a century; while the picturesque scenery in which
the village is embosomed forms no small addition to its medicinal
attractions. The number of invalids who resort annually to this
salubrious spring appears to be on the increase,--the best criterion of
the value attached to it. In the superior accommodation which it now
offers to every class of visitors, nothing has been neglected that even
the most fastidious can desire. Those domestic comforts, in particular,
which are often of more real importance to valetudinarians than the
skill of the physician, have been provided with a scrupulous exactness,
which makes the stranger at Matlock feel completely at home.
Matlock, however, though so friendly to the invalid, is neither gloomy
nor isolated; but to those who delight to mix in the gayer scenes of
artificial life, it possesses every attraction which refined society and
social intercourse can bestow. He who seeks health, and he who seeks
relaxation and pleasure, may enjoy every facility which science or
fashion can offer; and nowhere are the amusements better conducted, or
the rules of society more strictly observed, than at Matlock.
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