This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1858 Excerpt: ...to the prison of oblivion, the name of your real friend and countryman, THE AUTHOR. Eyam, August, 1830. THE ASTROLOGER. CANTO I. Peak mountains--Eyam Dale--Cottage--Grotto and gardens of the Rock--Miner--liis habits--Skill in mining--his wife--her domestic employment--interior of their cottage--propensities, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1858 Excerpt: ...to the prison of oblivion, the name of your real friend and countryman, THE AUTHOR. Eyam, August, 1830. THE ASTROLOGER. CANTO I. Peak mountains--Eyam Dale--Cottage--Grotto and gardens of the Rock--Miner--liis habits--Skill in mining--his wife--her domestic employment--interior of their cottage--propensities, snperstitions, &c. Hail! holy forms of nature--mountains bleak! Your minstrel still--still loves his native Peak; Oft has he wandered on your heaths, unknown, While his wild harp has wept to storms alone; Where high Sir William lifts, in clouds o'ercast, His giant shoulders on the western blast--Peers o'er a thousand dales, and looking out, Views Win-hill, Mam, and distant Kinderscout. Below the hills, where the first morning beam Pours all its glory on the graves of Eyam;f Mam-Tor--The name of a singular decomposing mountain, near Castleton, in the Peak, which is probably derived from the old adjective Maum--soft, shivering, or brittle; and the Saxon Tor--a hill, mount, or fort. ] The Graves of Eyam--The mountain tumuli, or burial place of the Hancocks' family, during the desolation of Eyam by the plague, in 1666. With the exception of a boy, the whole of this family, consisting of nine persons, perished, and were buried in a group on the heath eastward of Eyam. Various other places of sepulture are still visible in the surrounding hills.--See Rhodes's Peak Scenery, Hewitt's Desolation of Eyam, 9eo, Where Hollow-brook in angry winter floods, Falls, foams, and flows down Roylee's shelving woods; Deep in a limestone dell, which shrubs adorn--Where the rock-cistus scents the vernal morn; Where echo tells again the cushatt's tale, And hollow Cael's-wark moans the storm's wild wail; By the white Tor.f that overhangs the road, The industrious miner built...
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