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ceivc make us truly thankful," should be added, " and 

 render us truly grateful to our big son Jonathan, God 

 bless him ! " 



One could settle down at the White Lion in Guild- 

 ford, and spend a month, at least, visiting every day 

 fresh objects of interest, and I have no doubt becoming 

 day by day more charmed with the life he was leading. 

 In every direction historical scenes, crowded full of 

 instructive stories of the past, invite us : and yet to- 

 morrow morning the horn will sound, and we shall be 

 off, reluctantly saying to ourselves, we must return 

 some day when we have leisure, and wander in and 

 around, absorb and moralize. This rapid survey is only 

 to show us what we can do hereafter. A summer to 

 each county would not be too much, and here are 

 eight hundred miles from sea to firth to be rushed over« 

 in seven weeks. Guildford, farewell ! — on " to fresh 

 woods and pastures new." 



Saturday, June i8. 

 After a delightful breakfast we mount the coach 

 and are off through the crowd of lookers-on for our 

 second day's journey. During this stage we learned 

 the valuable lesson that we should not attempt to coach 

 through England without having the ordnance survey 

 maps, and paying close attention to them. In this part 

 of the country, so near to monster London, the roads 

 and lanes are innumerable, and run here, there, and 



