6 A Walk from 



your way is sure to lie through them. In a picturesque 

 and undulating country, studded with parks and man- 

 sions of wealth and taste, you are plunging through a 

 long, dark tunnel, or walled into a deep cut, before 

 your eye can catch the view that dashes by your car- 

 riage window. If you have a utilitarian proclivity and 

 purpose, and would like to see the great agricultural 

 industries of the country, they present themselves to 

 you in as confused aspects as the sceneries of the passing 

 landscape. The face of every farm is turned from you. 

 The farmer's house fronts on the turnpike road, and the 

 best views of his homestead, of his industry, prosperity, 

 and happiness, look that way. Tou only get a furtive 

 glance, a kind of clandestine and diagonal peep at him 

 and his doings ; and having thus travelled a hundred 

 miles through a fertile country, you can form no ap- 

 proximate or satisfactory idea of its character and pro- 

 ductions. 



But no facts nor arguments are needed to convince 

 an intelligent traveller, that the railway affords no point 

 of view for seeing town or country to any satisfactory 

 perception of its character. Indeed, neither coach of 

 the olden, nor cab of the modern vogue, nor saddle, will 

 enable one to "do" either town or country with thorough 

 insight and enjoyment. It takes him too long to pull 

 up to catch the features of a sudden view. He can do 



