PKEFACE. 



fTIHE kind and uncritical reception of my first volume, both 

 at home and abroad, leaves no occasion for a formal 

 introduction of my second. Sitting at the same broad old 

 farm-house fireside, let me assume the same friendly com 

 panionable relation with my readers, improved by better 

 acquaintance, and go on with my talk freely and uneon- 

 strainedly as before. 



To any stranger who may like to know what it is about, 

 I will add, that the volume is almost entirely descriptive 

 of rustic and rural matters, as they came in the way of a 

 party of young Americans walking through some of the 

 western and southern parts of England, with such observa 

 tions upon them as a young democratic farmer would 

 naturally make. 



I have added, in an Appendix, some information and 

 advice to those wishing to make a pedestrian tour in Europe 

 at small expense. 



FEED. LAW OLMSTED. 

 TOSOMOO FAEM, 

 Soufoide, Staten Island, Sept. 2, 1852. 



