London to John O 1 Groat's. 



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CHAPTER VII. 



LIGHT OF HUMAN LIVES. PHOTOGRAPHS AND BIOGEAPHS. THE LATE 



JONAS WEBB, HIS LIFE, LABORS AND MEMORY. 



THE next morning I resumed my walk and visited 

 a locality bearing a name and an association of 

 world- wide celebrity and interest. It is the name of a 

 small rural hamlet, hardly large enough to be called a 

 village, and marked by no trait of nature or art to give 

 it distinction. 



There are conditions and characteristics both in the 

 natural and moral world which can hardly be described 

 fully in Saxon, Latin or Greek terminology, even with 

 the largest license of construction. There are attributes 

 or qualities attaching to certain locations, of the simp- 

 lest natural features, which cannot even be hinted at 

 or suggested by the terms, geography, topography, or 

 biography. Put the three together and condense or 

 collocate their several meanings in one compound qualifi- 

 cation which you can write and another spell, and you 

 do not compass the signification you want to convey. 

 The soul of man has its immortality, and the feeblest 

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