CHAPTER VIII. 



TRAVELS, 18261839. 



' IF we were to classify travellers in a very general 

 manner, we would consider them as either "travellers" or 

 " tourists ; " meaning by the former, persons who visit 

 unknown or distant regions, and by the latter, those who 

 confine their rambles to comparatively civilized countries 

 as, for instance, to any part of Europe. . . / 



These words are taken from an unpublished article 

 on * Travel 7 by James Forbes, written about 1839 or 

 1840. Its pages, from which space forbids us to quote 

 at greater length, show how well he had studied the 

 philosophy of travel in all its relations ; and if, accord- 

 ing to his own definitions, the limited geographical range 

 of his journeys places them in the more modest category, 

 it must be allowed that the * travels ' of many men It. 

 been less fruitful than the 'tours' of Janus Kmbes. 



\\ " cannot do him justice, however, unless we bear in 



mind that halt a century of improvement in locomotion 



lies between us and the time when he first began to 



1. The men of science, the mountaineers and the 



ists who now, each returning summer, throng the 



valleys in which Knrl.es found himself almie, e;m hardly 



realize the difficulties which beset the path of OIK \\hn- 



pioneered for all three classes, in days when experiei 



