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for Carlyle's country, where we passed five delight- 

 ful days. The next week found us in Words- 

 worth's land, and the 10th of June in London. 

 After a week here I went down into Surrey and 

 Hants, in quest of the nightingale, for four or five 

 days. Till the middle of July I hovered about 

 London, making frequent excursions into the coun- 

 try, east, south, north, west, and once across the 

 channel into France, where I had a long walk over 

 the hills about Boulogne. July 15 we began our 

 return journey northward, stopping a few days at 

 Stratford, where I found the Eed Horse Inn sadly 

 degenerated from excess of travel. Thence again 

 into the Lake region for a longer stay. From 

 Grasmere we went into north Wales, and did the 

 usual touring and sight-seeing around and over the 

 mountains. The last week of July we were again 

 in Glasgow, from which port we sailed on our home- 

 ward voyage July 29. 



With a suitable companion, I should probably 

 have made many long pedestrian tours. As it was, 

 I took many short but delightful walks both in 

 England and Scotland, with a half day's walk in 

 the north of Ireland about Moville. 'T is an admi- 

 rable country to walk in, the roads are so dry 

 and smooth and of such easy grade, the footpaths 

 so numerous and so bold, and the climate so cool 

 and tonic. One night, with a friend, I walked 

 from Rochester to Maidstone, part of the way in a 

 slow rain and part of the way in the darkness. We 

 had proposed to put up at some one of the little 



