a town or village of Derbyshire, near

Wicksworth, situated on the very edge of the Derwent; noted for its bath, the water of which is milk-warm; and remarkable for the huge rocks in its environs, particularly those called the Torr, which is 140 yards high. It is an extensive straggling village, built in a very romantic style, on the steep side of a mountain, and containing, in 1801, above 2000 inhabitants. Near the bath are several small houses, whose situation Matlock is on the little natural horizontal parts of the mountain, a few yards above the road, and in some places the roots of some almost touch the floors of others. There are excellent accommodations for company who resort to the bath; and the poorer inhabitants are supported by the sale of petrifactions, crystals, &c. and notwithstanding the rockiness of the soil, the cliffs produce an immense number of trees, whose foliage adds greatly to the beauty of the place.