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NAEEAT1VE OF A WALKING TOUE IN BKITTAINY, 



By JOHN MOUNTENEY JEPHSON, B.A., F.S.A. 



Accompanied by Notes of a Photographic Expedition, 



By LOVELL REEVE, P.L.S. 



FROM THE INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER. 



Now, my reader — if I am so fortunate as to 

 obtain one — has to make up his mind to be my 

 fellow-traveller for five weeks. He will be called 

 upon to sympathise with me in prosperity and 

 adversity, in shine and shower, in picturesque 

 scenes and in tame, in bad inns and in good. He 

 must watch with me the joyous peasants of Fini- 

 sterre gathering in the harvest, among rows of 

 apple-trees loaded with rosy fruit, or beating out 

 the grain in the homestead with measured stroke, 

 or dressed in all the splendour of their traditional 

 costume, threading the mazes of the ronde as 

 their forefathers did in the clays of Chaucer and 

 Froissart. He must traverse with me the savage 

 plains of Morbihan, bristling with the monu- 

 mental granite of the Druids, and rough with 

 entrenchments where Caesar's legionaries pitched 

 their tents. We must pace together the dim 

 mysterious cloisters of the mediaeval cathedral, 



and climb the purple mountain, and penetrate 

 the hollow bridle-road, and linger beside the 

 brown rocky stream, the sculptured well, the 

 wayside cross, the grotesque Calvary, and the 

 ruined donjon, which a Du Guesclin held against 

 a Chandos or a Chandos against a Du Guesclin. 

 We must rest together on the farmer's settle, and 

 the bench of the village inn, while the tailor plays 

 the binou, or the white capped peasant-girl sings 

 the plantive sone of her country, or relates the 

 Celtic fairy-tale or the mediaeval legend. We 

 must mingle our regrets when our only fare is a 

 gigot which has helped to carry the patriarch of 

 that flock of white-eyebrowed goats which we 

 passed in the morning, across the rocky hills of 

 Finisterre, and rejoice together when a talented 

 chef exhausts all the resources of his art to serve 

 us with a refreshing potage, a delicate fricandeau 

 a l'oseille, or a savoury canard aux olives. 



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LOVELL REEVE, 5, Henrietta- street, Covent-garden. 



It only remains to be said that Mr. Lovell Reeve was twice married, 

 in October, 1837, and again in 1854 ; by his first wife he left surviv- 

 ing three daughters and a son, but there was no issue of the second 

 marriage. Mrs. Reeve, however, was resolved to complete the 

 magnum opus of her husband's life : the " Conchologia Iconica," and 

 with the aid of Mr. G. E. Sowerby, senr., published vols. 16 — 20 

 (five in all), inditing the prefpetial remarks to the last volume. 



I must again tender my best acknowledgments to Miss Jessie 

 Reeve for so kindly providing me with so many details and MS. in 

 connection with her father's career. 



Albinism at Eastbourne.— A large number of Valvata piscinalis have this 

 summer been dredged in a ditch at Litlington, a few miles out of Eastbourne. On 

 being cleaned about two per cent, turned out to be the var. albina Taylor, pure 

 white and very beautiful little shells. Several specimens of Limncea peregra var. 

 Candida have been found at Wannock Glen and in the Pevensey Marshes. Helix 

 itala var. hyalozonata is not uncommon on a bank near Beachy Head. Clausilia 

 perversa var. albina has been taken off a beech tree at " Paradise." — Arthur G. 

 Stubbs, Eastbourne, 1900 {Read before the Society, Sept. 12th, 1900). 



