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my heart. The first difficulty was surmounted. Honours, 

 which, on apphcation being made through my friends, Phila- 

 delphia had refused, Liverpool freely accorded. 



I left that emporium of commerce, with many a passport, 

 bent upon visiting fair Edina, for I longed to see the men 

 and the scenes immortalized by the fervid strains of Burns, 

 and the glowing eloquence of Scott and Wilson. I arrived 

 at Manchester ; and here, too, the Greggs, the Lloyds, the 

 Sergeants, the Holmes, the Blackwalls, the Bentleys, 

 and many others, rendered my visit as pleasing as it was profit- 

 able to me. Friends pressed me to accompany them to the 

 pretty villages of Bakewell, Mattlock, and Buxton. It was a 

 jaunt of pure enjoyment. Nature was then at her best, at least 

 such was the feeling of our whole party ; the summer was full 

 of promise. 



My journey to Scotland was performed along the north- 

 western shores of England. I passed in view of Lancaster 

 Castle, and through Carlisle. I had by this time much altered 

 my ideas of this Island and its inhabitants. I found her 

 churches all hung with her glories, and her people all alive to 

 the kindest hospitality. I saw Edinburgh, and was struck with 

 the natural pictorial elegance of her site ; and I soon found 

 that her inhabitants were as urbane as those whom I had left 

 behind me. The principal scientific and literary characters of 

 the ancient metropolis of Scotland received me as a brother. 

 It is impossible for me to mention all the individuals from 

 whom I received the kindest attention ; but gratitude forbids 

 my omitting the names of Professors Jameson, Graham, 

 Russel, Wilson, Brown, and Monro, Sir Walter 

 Scott, Captain Hall, Dr Brewster, Dr Greville, 



