128 Bough Notes of a Tour to the LaJc£s 



ductiofi to Physiological and Systematical Botany^ says this 

 elegant and learned writer, " as they (vegetables) possess 

 life, irritability, and motion, spontaneously directing their 

 organs to what is natural and beneficial to them, and flourish- 

 ing according to their success in satisfying their wants, may 

 not the exercise of their vital functions be attended with some 

 degree of sensation, however low, and some consequent 

 sliare of happiness ? Such a supposition accords with all the 

 best ideas we can form of the Divine Creator, nor could the 

 consequent uneasiness which plants must suffer, no doubt in a 

 very low degree likewise, from the depredations of animals, 

 bear any comparison with their enjoyment on the whole." 



Art. III. Rough Notes made during a Pedestrian Tour to the 

 Lakes of Cumberland and Westmoreland^ in the Spring of 1830. 

 By G. and H. 



{Continued from Vol. IV. p. 302.) 



Sir, 



In forwarding you a continuation of the " Rough Notes made during a 

 Pedestrian Tour to the Lakes," I am anxious of offering some explanation 

 and apology to your readers for intruding into your pages papers having 

 little of interest and less of elegance to recommend them. 



They were not composed by the parlour fire, for the amusement of the 

 public, but penned by my pedestrian friend and myself, in the little Cum- 

 berland inns, whilst surrounded by the scenery which they faintly attempt 

 to describe, when the long march of the day or the anticipated climb of 

 the morrow demanded some such quiet evening's amusement. Under such 

 circumstances they were more likely to bear the stamp of truth than the 

 polish of authorship and leisure : inclination or ability has since been 

 wanting to dress up our crude notices for the refined taste of your critical 

 readers. 



Our object in sending them for insertion, however, is not the gratifica- 

 tion of such, but the humble hope that other of your subscribers, blessed 

 with an equal share of health and strength, but having, like ourselyes, but 

 little leisure and little cash, may be induced to devote them to this most 

 enchanting tour of the north-western counties. Here they will meet with 

 scenery surpassing the most highly coloured painting of fancy; and should 

 they discover one new plant, or capture one new insect, we shall feel amply 

 repaid for the trouble of transcribing, and care little for any anathema that 

 our homeliness may draw down upon us. 



Your obedient servant, 

 Kennington, November 15. 1831. G. 



Wednesday, May 19. 1830. — Upon looking out this morn- 

 ing, our prospects remained clouded, and " the mighty Hel- 

 vellyn " was still enveloped in impenetrable fog. We were 

 resolved, however, to reach Ambleside to-day, and were 



