London to John O' Groat's. 413 



like coming back again into the great communions of 

 humanity after a long and private fellowship with 

 the secluded quietudes of Nature. 



At four p.m. the next day I took the Thurso coach 

 and passed over in the night the whole distance that 

 had occupied me a week in travelling by staff. 

 Stopped a night in Inverness, another at Elgin, and 

 spent the sabbath with my friend Anthony Cruick- 

 shank at Sittyton, about fifteen miles north of Aber- 

 deen. 



