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that habit has rendered necessary, wherever on earth we 

 go. And yet change more refreshing and novelty more 

 complete are here within one day of slowest travel, than 

 in journeys. to Berlin and Vienna ; for the truest change 

 and best novelty are not in length of travel, but in the 

 abandonment of habit, and especially in the zest of free 

 and personal discovery. 



There is an unfortunate belief that this glorious pleasure 

 and passion of the discoverer are not now to be enjoyed 

 in Europe. It is supposed that since every State in that 

 region has been explored by many travellers, and even 

 more or less accurately surveyed by the makers of maps, 

 there is nothing new to be found there. The reason for 

 this appears to be a confusion between the genuine 

 pleasures of the discoverer and the satisfaction of his 

 pride. Of course there can be nothing to boast of in 

 discoveries such as those here narrated, but there is 

 much to be enjoyed. The explorer of a nameless Eu- 

 ropean river need not hope to be remembered like Liv- 

 ingstone or Speke, but he may set forth in the full 

 assurance of finding much that is worth finding, and of 

 enjoying many of the sensations, deducting those con- 

 nected with personal vanity, which give interest to more 

 famous explorations. It is necessary, however, to the 

 complete enjoyment of an excursion of discovery, that 

 the region to be explored, whether mountain or river, or 

 whatever else it may be, should not have been already 

 explored by others, or at any rate not with the same 

 objects and intentions. A geologist has a certain sat- 

 isfaction in marching, hammer in hand, over a tract of 



