y^e hall into before we Came to y^e dineing roome, w^{ch} I should have spoken off then, was delicately painted over head, and Round on the top was a raile and Barristers so naturally drawn just round the Cornish, that you would take it for a Railed walke round y^e top to looke down into the gallery, There is another ffine staircase all stone and hangs on it self on y^e outside, y^e support is from y^e wall and its own building. Ye stone of y^e half paces are large and one Entire stone makes Each. On the top of y^e Staires y^e space Leading to y^e roomes are 3 large Stones, the Stones Cost 20^£ a piece, so large and thick you would wonder how they should be raised up so high and be supported by its own arch without any pillars on y^e outside. This is all of Stone Cut out of y^e hills w^{ch} Looks like what we Call free stone. Y^e house is all off the same and all the marble in y^e Windows, Chimneys and pavements is all marble dug out of the hill above the house, both black, white rance, and Curiously veined and polished, so fine as any I ever saw w^{ch} Came from beyond sea. Thence we came to Bankwell a pretty neate market town 2 mile; it Stands on a hill, yet you descend a vast hill to it w^{ch} you would thinke impossible to go down, and we was forced to fetch a Great Compass, and by reason of y^e steepness and hazard of y^e wayes if you take a wrong Way there is no passing. You are forced to have guides as in all parts of Darbyshire, and unless it be a few y^t use to be guides y^e Common people know not above 2 or 3 mile from their home, but they of y^e Country will Climbe up and down w^{th} their horses those steep precipices. There are many fine springs of water purling out of y^e Rock on these hills. At Bankwell there was an Excellent Minister in y^e Publick who pray’d and preach’d very seriously and his Life and Conversation is suitable, not very frequent in our dayes to be found.