Seven Wonders of the Peak

This cures the palsied members of the old, and cherishes the nerves grown stiff and cold" "A thousand paces off, a fount doth rise.

Which since the admir'd flux of the greater sea Doth by report in its small channel play" "One thing remained, but highly worth our view, Pool's hole, a cave so called and near us too.

Shrowded within this darksome hid retrieve By spoils of those he robbed, he used to live" "A noble Cave between two rocks appears, Unto the sun unknown, but to the stars Fearing to be immerged, and both the bears Turned, it its mouth with horrour does present: Just like a furnace, or as Hell they paint, Swallowing with open jawes the damned croud After the sentence is pronounced aloud."

"Long before Hobbes wrote his poem, the Elizabethan antiquarian William Camden had written of three wonders and three beauties of the High Peak, in his definitive reference book Britannia, first published in 1586.

He describes:[22]"There are in High Peake wonders three, A deepe hole, Cave, and Den, Commodities as many bee, Led, Grasse, and Sheepe in pen.

In the 1720s satirist author Daniel Defoe published his Tour thro’ the Whole Island of Great Britain, in which he denounced Hobbes’ and Cotton’s ‘Wonders of the Peak', declaring that only Eldon Hole and Chatsworth were justified.

[23] The Buxton Museum has a 'Wonders of the Peak' exhibit and online collection, including an original edition of Thomas Hobbes' book De Mirabilibus Pecci.