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Hesourees, 
APPY the man who has some resources beyond the ordinary 
routine business employment of life. One-idea-people are 
‘never agreeable people, especially to those whose minds unfortu- 
nately are not bent at all in the course of the one idea. The 
delicie of entire change from the engrossing task of life are known 
so well to most intelligent men and women, that one can only 
“compare such a change to the feeling of him whose life is spent 
‘in the fen country, where 
«For leagues no other tree did mark 
The level waste, the rounding gray,” 
finding himself by the Lake of Lucerne on a clear summer day, 
: he bright blue waters at his feet, and, rising from the Lake, the 
glorious green mountains, ridge above ridge, ‘till his eye rests 
the distant sparkling outline of the eternal snows. The 
colours of this simile may to some be too bright; I pray you, 
therefore, my friends, tone them down with your own brush and 
in harmony with your own fancy. This Magazine attests the 
resources of the Naturalist, the Microscopist, the Geologist, and 
the Antiquarian; and I will now venture to put in a’word for my 
ow n humble resources. A reverence, though by no means a super- 
stitious one for antiquity, and a love of architecture, have led me, in 
company with a kindred spirit, to find recreation in leisure hours in 
pleasant pedestrian trips, easy marches from this ancient town, 
to spots bearing familiar names, yet full of antiquarian interest. 
A fresh walk amid hill and valley in this Chiltern district, with 
good health and an object before you, who can describe such 
-acombination of enjoyments? George Borrow would certainly 
well perform the task, did he from “‘ Wild Wales” take his next 
walk through our county. 
To recount the numerous objects of interest within compass in 
na this neighbourhood would be beyond my purpose: I will only 
mention a few that at the moment strike me. There is the almost 
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