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and women, and of the way to obtain the greatest amount of 
information from those most competent to give it. He will 
proceed, in short, as Mr. Rawnsley did when collecting the 
materials for his delightful paper giving the opinions entertained 
of Wordsworth by the people of the Lake Country who in various 
ways came into contact with the great poet. But as it is evident 
that Mr. Rawnsley would have been too late had he waited 
another ten years, so will it be with the collector of reminiscences 
of Border smuggling, which expired about two years after the 
death of Wordsworth. And I believe that Cumberland will be 
found to offer a more interesting field of research than any other 
English county, to those who are qualified to obtain information 
from the oldest inhabitants, about old manners, customs, and folk- 
lore ; information of which people fifty or sixty years of age, living 
in the same districts, may be entirely destitute. 
