At Chatsworth. The Water willow. The cascade shot out from many spouts. The fountains[1167]. The water tree[1168]. The smooth floors in the highest rooms. Atlas, fifteen hands inch and half[1169].
River running through the park. The porticoes on the sides support two galleries for the first floor.
My friends were not struck with the house. It fell below my ideas of the furniture. The staircase is in the corner of the house. The hall in the corner the grandest room, though only a room of passage.
On the ground-floor, only the chapel and breakfast-room, and a small library; the rest, servants' rooms and offices[1170].
A bad inn.
JULY 13.
At Matlock.
JULY 14.
At dinner at Oakover; too deaf to hear, or much converse. Mrs. Gell.
The chapel at Oakover. The wood of the pews grossly painted. I could not read the epitaph. Would learn the old hands.