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Isle of Wight, the old road to London, running, I believe, through 

 Guildford, is said to be much pleasanter than the more direct 

 way we came. After spending some weeks in and about Lon- 

 don, follow up the Thames by Henley, and as near the south 

 bank as you can, to Oxford then by Stratford-on-Avon, War- 

 wick and Kenilworth to Birmingham ; thence, according to your 

 interest, through the manufacturing districts, and by Chatsworth 

 and the Derbyshire moors to York ; thence by Fountain's Abbey, 

 through the curious hill-country of West Yorkshire and Lanca- 

 shire, into Westmoreland ; thence either north to Scotland, or by 

 Liverpool to Ireland, crossing afterwards to Scotland from Bel- 

 fast. Guide-books can be obtained in New York, by the aid of 

 which and a good map, you may, before you leave home, judge 

 how much time you will want to spend in examining various ob- 

 jects of interest, and ascertain distances, etc. You can thus plot 

 off your route and calculate the time at which you will arrive at 

 any particular point. Guide-books are expensive and heavy, and 

 this is their principal use ; further, you are liable to pass through 

 a town and neglect to see something for which it is peculiarly 

 distinguished, without you have something to remind you of it. 



We traveled at first at the rate of one hundred miles in six 

 days, at last at the rate of about two hundred ; sometimes going 

 forty miles, and ordinarily thirty, in a day. We usually did 

 thirty miles in eleven hours, one of which might be spent under 

 a hedge or in a wayside inn, and about one mile an hour lost in 

 loitering, looking at things on the wayside or talking to people 

 that we met ; our actual pace was just about four miles an hour. 



You can start with twelve miles in a day, and calculate to 

 average twenty-five after the first fortnight. 



If you can make anything like a harmonious noise upon any 

 instrument for that purpose, I would advise you to strap it on. 

 You will understand its value by reading the life of Goldsmith. 

 It will make you welcome in many a peasant circle, where you 

 might otherwise have been only a damper upon all naturalness 

 and geniality. 



