Excerpt from The Oakleigh Shooting Code: Containing Two Hundred and Twenty Chapters of Information Relative to Shooting, Man Black-Game, Pheasants, Woodcocks, Snipes, and Hares
Rousseau's retreat was in Staffordshire; not in Derbyshire, as Hume has it; but near the border. The Dove divides those counties; and the scenery is similar on either side throughout a vast extent of country, part of which on the Derbyshire side is known as the Peak.
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