We went 3 mile off in the afternoone to heare another y^t was in a meeteing and so 3 mile home againe. Y^e hills about y^e town and all about y^e town is rocks of y^e finest marble of all sorts—huge Rock. I took some of it and shewing it to severall they think it Comparable to any beyond sea. Thence to Haddon Hall for so all y^e great houses are called, as Chatsworth Hall, so this Haddon Hall the Earle of Rutlands house 2 mile from Bankwell; its a good old house all built of stone on a hill and behind it is a ffine grove of high trees and good Gardens, but nothing very Curious as y^e mode now is. There is a large Parke upon a great ascent from y^e house which is built round a Court, y^e parke is one part of some of y^e highest hills w^{ch} gives a great prospect over y^e Country. But Indeed all Darbyshire is but a world of peaked hills, which from some of y^e highest you discover y^e Rest Like steeples or tops of hills as thick as Can be, and tho’ they appear so Close yet y^e steepness down and up takes up y^e tyme, y^t you go it as if so many Miles, and were y^e ground measur’d would be in Length as much as miles on a plaine. Thence to Buxton 9 mile over those Craggy hills Whose Bowells are full of mines of all kinds off Black and white and veined Marbles, and some have mines of Copper, others tinn and Leaden mines, in w^{ch} is a great deale of silver. I have some w^{ch} Looks full of silver, its so bright just brought up out of one of y^e mines. They digg down their mines Like a well for one man to be let down w^{th} a Rope and pulley, and so when they find oar they keep digging under ground to follow the oar w^{ch} lies amongst the stone y^t Lookes like our fine stones. In y^t mine I saw there was 3 or 4 at work and all let down thro’ y^e well; they digg sometymes a great way before they Come to oar. There is also a sort of stuff they dig out mixt w^{th} y^e oar and all about the hills they Call Sparr, it looks like Crystal or white sugar Candy, its pretty hard; y^e doctors use it in medicine for the Collick; its smooth like glass but it looks all in Crack’s all over. They Wall round the Wells to y^e mines to Secure their Mold’ring in upon them, they Generally Look very pale and yellow that work Underground, they are fforc’d to keep Lights w^{th} them and sometymes are forced to use Gunpowder to break y^e stones, and y^t is sometymes Hazardous to the people and destroys them at y^e work. Its very difficult to find the Wayes here for you see only tops of hills and so many roads—by reason of y^e best wayes up and down—that its impossible for Coach or Waggon to pass some of y^m, and you scarce see a tree and No hedges all over y^e Country, only dry stone walls y^t incloses ground no other ffence. Buxton we Saw 2 or 3 tymes and then Lost y^e sight of it as often, and at last did not See it till just you Came upon it—that 9 mile we were above 6 hours going it. The house thats Call’d Buxton Hall w^{ch}