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there are no ill effects to be apprehended from doing so. You 

 will perspire more freely, and I think stand the heat better ; but 

 cold water will not quench thirst, except momentarily ; on the 

 contrary, I believe it increases it. Malt liquors and spirituous 

 liquors have different effects upon different individuals. Both 

 are disagreeable to me. Most English pedestrians drink very 

 freely of malt liquors, and find them wholesome. On the Conti- 

 nent I would carry a flask for light wine, such as every peasant 

 has to his dinner. Its cost is trifling, and there is nothing which 

 will quench thirst like it. It is not very palatable at first, but 

 exceedingly refreshing, and I believe every way heathful. It 

 has no intoxicating, and very slight stimulating, qualities. I 

 think it would have an excellent effect on the public health, if it 

 could be produced cheaply, and used as freely as tea and coffee 

 now are in the United States. 



When you feel very much jaded with a long walk, and hardly 

 able to go any further, if you can swallow a cup of tea and a bit 

 of toast or biscuit, and pour a wine-glass of spirits into your 

 shoes, keeping yourself warm during the necessary short halt, you 

 will find yourself good for another hour or two of hard tramping. 



Routes and Distances. Unless you are considerably familiar 

 with the language and history of a Continental nation, I would 

 advise you to spend most of your time in England. It is better 

 to study thoroughly the character of one people, and remain so 

 long, if possible, in their country, that you may feel as if you 

 had lived in it, and made yourself a part of it, than to run super- 

 ficially over a dozen. It is, however, much cheaper, and in many 

 respects more agreeable to walk in Germany than in England ; 

 and a true American, mingling with the peasant people, can hard- 

 ly fail to do them good, and have his own heart enlightened and 

 expanded by their spirit longing for liberty and universal affec- 

 tion for his country. It is of walking in England, however, that 

 I wish especially to speak. 



Your route should be determined by your tastes and objects. 

 If they are as general as ours, and you design to employ the 

 same time in England that we did, I could advise but very slight 

 variation from our route. 



With a week's more time, you should see more of North 

 Wales, (though, in general, mountain and lake country is not 

 England, and you can get what tourists go to those districts for 

 better nearer at home ;) extend your walk into Devonshire, and 

 keep along the south coast to Portsmouth. After visiting the 



