CRUSOE'S DERBYSHIRE CAVES.

This article asserts that in a recent article, critic Paul Hartle has examined the extent and nature of writer Daniel Defoe's plagiarism in his account of the Peak District in his Tour, with particular reference to his main source, "The Wonders of the Peake." There are three occasions when Defoe is known to have been in Derbyshire; but on only one of these did he really enter the Peak District. Clearly he must have been accompanying his father on his journey a month or two earlier; and curious zigzags in the earlier part of the journey suggest that Defoe was picking up other students enroute.