152 EXCURSIONS ROUND LONDON. 



enter life with minds fully matured, where 

 \voulei be. the difference between reason and 

 instinct? We would, in this case, be indebted 

 to Nature for all our knowledge ; the disco- 

 veries of human genius would no longer be 

 the result of our own exertions.- 



While endeavouring to impress on the 

 unsophisticated minds of his auditors a just 

 sense of the importance of cultivating the 

 faculty of reason, they had slowly proceed- 

 ed on their journey, and on reaching West 

 Waltham, a pleasant village, situated on the 

 west side of the Lea, where the New River 

 e^tjers Middlesex, he stopped to point out to 

 them the Cross erected here by Edward I. 

 in honour of his Queen Eleanor. Originally 

 it was a noble structure, and rou.id it were 

 several effigies., with the arms of England, 

 Castile, Leon, Poitou, &c, which are now 

 greatly defaced. 



In 1195, preparations were made for re- 

 moving this cross into the grounds of Sir 

 Wm. George frescot, Lord of the Manor, 

 l but 



