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Bryant and Mr. Pitchford were daily enriching the 
science with new discoveries. Thus the botany of 
Norfolk has become celebrated, and its Flora has 
proved richer, I believe, than that of any other county, 
because it has been more closely investigated. 
“ Fired by these examples, and ambitious of con- 
tributing to the common stock of knowledge, I 
took advantage of a journey to Yorkshire, Derby- 
shire, and Lancashire, to inquire what those coun- 
ties afforded. I had visited them several times 
before, but now I wondered how any of my former 
journeys had afforded me pleasure. I felt like aman 
born blind, who first walked abroad to look about 
him. The wild moors, the mossy rocks, the moun- 
tainous woods, to me were ‘ opening Paradise’. 
«< Some time afterwards the country about Edin- 
burgh, and the mountains of Scotland, afforded me 
a fresh harvest; and at length the classical scenes 
of Italy derived for me a new charm from the oc- 
casional pursuits of botany. But above all, the 
alpine scenery and treasures of Savoy and Swit- 
zerland have left the most pleasing impression. 
In those countries all the riches of Flora burst 
upon us at once, during their short spring and 
hasty summer. From the first melting of the snow, 
when the Jura and its brother Alps are absolutely 
covered with Crocuses, as with a purple robe, to the 
bright days of autumn, when the Raspberry and 
Bilberry glow on their dewy bushes, such a profu- 
sion of foliage and flowers and fruits, so much 
more abundant and varied than we have any expe- 
rience of, is crowded into a few weeks, that the 
