There was one good bed for us Gentlewomen. Its a pretty Long Parish and through it runns a Water which Came down a great banck at the End of y^e town like a precipice with such violence y^t it makes a great noise, and looks Extreamely Cleare in the Streame that gushes out and runns along: it runns on off a deep yellow Coullour, they say it runns off of a poisonous mine or Soile and from Coale pitts; they permit none to taste it for I sent for a Cup of it and y^e people in y^e Streete Call’d out to forbid y^e tasteing it, and it will beare no Soape so its useless. Here we Entred Darbyshire and went to Chesterffield 6 mile, and Came by y^e Coale mines where they were digging. They make their mines at y^e Entrance Like a Well and so till they Come to y^e Coale, then they digg all the Ground about where there is Coale and set pillars to support it, and so bring it to y^e well where by a basket Like a hand barrow by Cords they pull it up—so they Let down and up the miners with a Cord. Chesterffield Looks Low when you approach it from the Adjacent hill w^{ch} you descend, but then you ascend another to it. The Coale pitts and quaraes of stone are all about, Even just at y^e town End, and in the town its all built of stone. Y^e Church stands in a place of Eminency, the town Looks well, the Streets good, y^e Market very Large. It was Satturday w^{ch} is their market day and there was a great Market Like some little ffaire, a great deale of Corne and all sorts of ware and ffowles there. I bought my self 2 very good ffatt white (pullings as they Call them) pullets for 6 pence both, and I am sure they were as Large and as good as would have Cost 18 pence if not 2 shill^s a piece in London—so said all my Company. In this town is y^e best ale in the Kingdom Generally Esteem’d. All Derbyshire is full of Steep hills and nothing but the peakes of hills as thick one by another is seen in most of y^e County w^{ch} are very steepe, w^{ch} makes travelling tedious and y^e miles Long. You see neither hedge nor tree but only Low drye stone walls round some ground Else its only hills and Dales as thick as you Can Imagine, but tho’ the Surface of y^e Earth Looks barren yet those hills are impregnated w^{th} Rich marble stone metals, Iron and Copper and Coale mines in their bowells, from whence we may see the wisdom and benignitye of o^{er} greate Creator to make up the Defficiency of a place by an Equivolent, and also the diversity of the Creation w^{ch} Encreaseth its Beauty. We go from Chesterffield to y^e Duke of Devonshires house and ascend a high hill at Least two or three miles Long, we pass’d by a Cavity in one great Banck or Rock Called Stonidge Hall all stone of about 12 yards long and about 4 or 5 broad, its all Rock like an arch on y^e Roofe but its not ffenc’d so but y^e beasts trample and ffowle it you Can scarce go into it. The same long steep hill we had to descend w^{ch} Comes to Chattsworth ten mile. The