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Excerpt from The Young Colonists The country round Castleton, ln Derbyshire, IS greatly admired by summer tourists, for it lies in the wildest 'part of that county; but in winter the wind whistles sharply over the bleak hills - where there are 116 trees to' break its violenceethe sheep huddle under the shelter of the roughly-built stone walls, and even lovers of the picturesque would at that season prefer 'a more level and wooded country. The farm of Mr. Humplireys was situ a'ted about a mile from Castleton. It consisted of one hundred acres or so of good land in the bottom, arid of five or six times as much upland grazing on the hills Mr. Humphreys owned as well as farmed his land, and so might have claimed, had he chosen, the title of gen 3 tleman-farmer; buthe himself would have 30 such. An idea. He was a hard working, practical fa out. 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.