History of the Forest of Rossendale (Classic Reprint)

Again, the longer such a work is delayed the more difficult it is of accomplishment, and the less trustworthy many of the sources of information become; and how desirable it is (applying the remark to any district) that the fragments of Fact and Legendary Lore which exist on our right hand and on our left, should be gathered up and strung together, however indifferently, before they become utterly dispersed and lost.

And how many there are amongst us who, possessing but vague notions of the past History of the Forest, would rejoice in a better acquaintance therewith - would delight to be told the story of its earlier existence - to learn more than they at present know of the rude forefathers who thinly tenanted its bleak hill-sides, or wandered centuries ago in its wooded cloughs where, instead of the noise of manufacturing Industry, the rush of the Red Deer through the leafy covert alone broke the prevailing stillness.

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