Engraved by Sid? Hall, Bury Str! Bloomsb?

London, Published by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown & Groen, Paternoster Row, 1824.

LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME, BROWN, AND GREEN,

PATEKNOSTER-ROW ;
AND THE AUTHOR, SHEFFIELD.

1824.

Gough adds

DEDICATION TO THE QUARTO EDITION.

TO HIS GRACE THE

DUKE OF DEVONSHIRE.

MY LORD DUKE,

INFLUENCED by my feelings, my predilections, and my wishes, I solicited permission to dedicate the following Sketches of the Peak SCENERY of DERBYSHIRE to your Grace. It is apparent that in so doing I had it less in contemplation to compliment you

than to do honour to myself: for the permission however, and the handsome manner in which it was communicated, allow ine thus publicly to return you

my thanks.

In the future progress of this work, your Grace's name can hardly fail to produce advantages probably far beyond what I at present anticipate, and open channels of information which may essentially facilitate its improvement, and extend its utility. Abstracted from this consideration, to what other individual could the following pages be inscribed with