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sprinkling of " the wise saws and modern instances" 

 of others. First, we are enthusiastic admirers of 

 pedestrian rambles, not keeping by formal routes, 

 or fashionable places of angling resort, but diving 

 into the nooks and recesses of the country, and going 

 up hill and down dale, just as the crow flies. The 

 greater the physical obstacles in the way the bet- 

 ter. When people tell us, there is no road that 

 way, we answer, " There was no road any where 

 till it was made," and off we set. These obstacles 

 call forth energy, and impart great pleasure on being 

 surmounted. A man thinks himself, for a moment 

 at least, a more important personage when he has 

 overtopped a mountain a mile and a half in altitude, 

 or made his way over ten or fifteen miles of dusky 

 moorland, without hearing anything save his own 

 voice in a stillness which seems to smite his heart 

 with something like fear. These are the kind of 

 movements which brace up a man's nerves like fid- 

 dle-strings, and which make him afterwards relish 

 his business or studies with a zest, which a mere 

 lounging or sauntering through a country can never 

 impart. Keeping away from fashionable hotels, or 

 the favourite or pet waters of some particular lo- 

 cality, is the surest method of making an angling 

 tour in such districts as these we have just gone 

 over, both delightful and improving. The mind 

 should be free and unfettered, in perfect unison 

 with the wild and unbounded scenes of nature 

 around it. 



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