Great expanse of country spread around and below.

The lads were eager to get to the top of the hill.

It was capped by a round knoll, half of which was by now cut away, and on the top of which stood an ancient monument, sturdy and squat, for signalling in old days far down into the level lands of Nottinghamshire and Leicestershire.
It was blowing so hard, high up there in the exposed place, that the only way to be safe was to stand nailed by the wind to the wan of the tower.

At their feet fell the precipice where the limestone was quarried away.

Below was a jumble of hills and tiny villages--Mattock, Ambergate, Stoney Middleton.