NATURE IN ENGLAND. 11 



London. After a week here I went down into Sur- 

 rey and Hants, in quest of the nightingale, for four 

 or five days. Till the middle of July I hovered about 

 London, making frequent excursions into the coun- 

 try, east, south, north, west, and once across the 

 channel into France, where I had a long walk over 

 the hills about Boulogne. July 15th we began our 

 return journey northward, stopping a few days at 

 Stratford, where I found the Red Horse Inn sadly de- 

 generated from excess of travel. Thence again into 

 the Lake region for a longer stay. From Grasmere 

 we went into north Wales, and did the usual tour- 

 ing and sight-seeing around and over the mountains. 

 The last week of July we were again in Glasgow, 

 from which port we sailed on our homeward voyage 

 July 29th. 



With a suitable companion, I should probably 

 have made many long pedestrian tours. As it was, 

 I took many short but delightful walks both in Eng- 

 land and Scotland, with a half day's walk in the 

 north of Ireland about Moville. 'T is an admirable 

 country to walk in, the roads are so dry and smooth 

 and of such easy grade, the foot-paths so numerous 

 and so bold, and the climate so cool and tonic. One 

 night, with a friend, I walked from Rochester to 

 Maidstone, part of the way in a slow rain and part 

 of the way in the darkness. We had proposed to 

 put up at some one of the little inns on the road, and 

 get a view of the weald of Kent in the morning ; but 

 the inns refused us entertainment, and we were com- 



