VI PREFACE. 



things are viewed, and characters considered, 

 afford infinite variety of description and 

 narrative : mine, I confess, are but brief and 

 slight sketches ; plain observations of nature, 

 the produce often of intervals of leisure and 

 shattered health, affording no history of the 

 country ; a mere outline of rural things ; the 

 journal of a traveller through the inexhaust- 

 ible regions of Nature. 



