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Excerpt from The Lancashire Witches, a Romance of Pendle Forest, Vol. 1 of 3: In Three Volumes
Dreary was the prospect on all sides. Black moor, bleak fell, straggling forest, intersected with sullen streams as black as ink, with here and there a small tarn, or moss-pool, with waters Of the same hue-these consti tuted the chief features of the scene. The whole district was barren, and thinly-populated. Of towns only Clithero, Colne, and Burnley - the latter little more than a village - were in view. In the valleys there were a few hamlets and scattered cottages, and on the uplands an occasional booth, as the hut Of the herdsman was termed; but of more important mansions, there were only six, as Merlay, Twistleton, Alcancoats, Saxfeld, Ightenhill, and Gawthorpe. The vaccaries for the cattle, Of which the herdsmen had the care, and the lawnds, or parks within the forest, appertaining to some of the halls before mentioned, Offered the only evidences of cultivation. All else was heathy waste, morass, and wood.
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