Sooty-faced men, horses and donkeys passed with loaded carts; and all the premonitory aspects of the "black country" multiplied as I proceeded.

I do not recollect ever seeing a landscape change so suddenly in England.
Chesterfield is an intelligent looking town, evidently growing in population and prosperity.

It has its own unique speciality; almost as strikingly distinctive as that of Strasburg or Pisa.

This is the most ambiguous and mysterious church spire in the world.

It would be very difficult to convey any idea of it by any description from an unaided pen; and there is nothing extant that would avail as an illustration.