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Excerpt from Village Reminiscences, Vol. 3 of 3 Pears. Scarcely to afford nourishment for the moss and fern peeping through the crevices, much less for the stately king of the forest! With equal interest did I spend days in strolling over barren moors, where only the tinkling of the sheep-bell, the barking of the shepherd's dog, or crowing of the moorycock, were to be heard, until warned by the approach of evening that it was time to seek shelter for the night; when, in descending from the moun tains, I generally obtained a view of some beau tiful woody valley or picturesque glen, thickly studded with habitations, yet so lovely and ro mantic in its most prominent features, that I might have fancied I beheld a second Eden, had it not been disfigured by some huge, mis shapen manufactory, which too frequently in this great commercial district defaces the most beautiful and romantic situation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.