RURAL EXCURSIONS 



ROUND LONDON. 



No. I. 

 EXCURSION TO HAMP.STEAD. 



ET us, my children, while the cloudless 

 aspect of the sky, and the miid tem- 

 perature of the atmosphere, invite us to 

 breathe the pure air of the fields let us quit 

 the noise and bustle of Oxford-street ; direct 

 our steps to Primrose-hill thence visit 

 Hampstead, and enjoy the beauties which 

 nature has so profusely lavished around that 

 delightful village. 



The most noble employment of a rational 

 being is, doubtless, to acquire a knowledge 

 of himself, and of the different objects 

 which surround him. 



But, if the study of nature led only to 

 the barren knowledge of those characters, 



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