I goe by quarreys of stone and pitts of Coales w^{ch} are both very good, soe that for fewell and building as well as good grounds for feeding Cattle and for Corne they are so well provided that together with their Industry they must needs be very Rich. All the hills about Eland is full of jnclosures and Coverts of wood y^t Looks very pleasant. This town gives title to y^e Marquis Hallifax son, as does Hallifax to y^e Marquis. This Lyes but 5 or 6 mile hence, its a stony town and the roads to it soe stony and difficult y^t I was Discouraged in going, the town now being almost ruined and Come to Decay, and y^e Engine that that town was famous for to behead their Criminalls at one stroake w^{th} a pully this was destroyed since their Charter or Liberty was Lost or taken from them, because most barbarously and rigourously acted Even w^{th} an absolute power w^{ch} they had of all y^e town; on those Informations I resolved not to goe to that ragged town tho’ there are many good people and a Large meeteing. From Eland I went to y^e Blackstone Edge 8 mile, when I had gone 3 of the miles I Came to a great Precipice or vast descent of a hill as full of stones as if paved and Exceedingly steep; I take it to be much steeper than Blackstone Edge tho’ not soe long. Y^e End of this steep was a Little village all stony alsoe. These parts have some resemblance to Darbyshire only here are more woody places and jnclosures. Then I Came to Blackstone Edge noted all over England for a dismal high precipice and steep in the ascent and descent on Either End; its a very moorish ground all about and Even just at the top, tho’ so high, that you travel on a Causey w^{ch} is very troublesome as its a moist ground soe as is usual on these high hills; they stagnate the aire and hold mist and raines almost perpetually. As I ascended, y^e Morning was pretty faire, but a sort of mist met me and small raine just as I attained y^e top, w^{ch} made me feare a wet day and y^t the aire would have been so thick to have quite Lost me y^e sight of y^e Country, but when I attained y^e top where is a great heap raised up w^{ch} parts Yorkshire—and there I entred Lancashire—the mist began to Lessen, and as I descended on this side y^e ffog more and more went off and a Little raine fell tho’ at a Little distance in our view, the sun shone on y^e vale w^{ch} Indeed is of a Large Extent here, and y^e advantage of soe high a hill w^{ch} is at Least 2 mile up discovers the grounds beneath as a fruitfull valley full of jnclosures and Cut hedges and trees. That w^{ch} adds to the formidableness of Blackstone Edge is that on y^e one hand you have a vast precipice almost the whole way both as one ascends and descends, and in some places y^e precipice is on Either hand. This hill took me up Much tyme to gaine the top and alsoe to descend it and put me in mind of the Description of y^e Alpes in Italy, where the Clouds drive all about and as it were below them, w^{ch} descends Lower