Chapter 14 DALES OF DERBYSHIRE

Deeper and narrower grew the dell;

It seemed some mountain, rent and riven,

A channel for the stream had given,

So high the cliffs of limestone gray

Hung beetling o'er the torrent's way.

Scott.

The limestone Dales of Derbyshire are narrow and deep, and their streams, when visible (for they often lurk underground), are swift, stron