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PREFACE. 



However, the book is done, after many in- 

 .terruptions from illness and other causes; and I 

 seemed to breathe quite freely when I signed the last 

 proof-sheet. I can only trust that it may prove to 

 me the little scarlet pioneer of a still more extended 

 tour through England, Ireland, and a portion of the 

 continent ; but go where I may, every August will 

 bring with it the old yearning to be across the Tweed, 

 mid all the pleasant memories of my journey 



'*' From tha Orkneys to Kensington with Punctuality and Despatch-' ' 



, Kensington-square, W., 

 August 1, 1865. 



