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for Carlyle's country, where we passed five delight- 

 ful days. The next week found us in Words- 

 worth's land, and the 10th of June in London. 

 After a week here I went down into Surrey and 

 Hants, in quest of the nightingale, for four or five 

 days. Till the middle of July I hovered about 

 London, making frequent excursions into the coun- 

 try, — east, south, north, west, and once across the 

 channel into France, where I had a long walk over 

 the hills about Boulogne. July 15 we began our 

 return journey northward, stopping a few days at 

 Stratford, where I found the Red Horse Inn sadly 

 degenerated from excess of travel. Thence again 

 into the Lake region for a longer stay. From 

 Grasmere we went into north Wales, and did the 

 usual touring and sight-seeing around and over the 

 mountains. The last week of July we were again 

 in Glasgow, from which port we sailed on our home- 

 ward voyage July 29. 



With a suitable companion, I should probably 

 have made many long pedestrian tours. As it was, 

 I took many short but delightful walks both in 

 England and Scotland, with a half day's walk in 

 the north of Ireland about Moville. 'T is an admi- 

 rable country to walk in, — the roads are so dry 

 and smooth and of such easy grade, the footpaths 

 so numerous and so bold, and the climate so cool 

 and tonic. One night, with a friend, I walked 

 from Rochester to Maidstone, part of the way in a 

 slow rain and part of the way in the darkness. We 

 had proposed to put up at some one of the little 



