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The river is thus an advantage as a highway, not only 

 in summer and when the ice is bare in the winter, 

 but even when the snow lies very deep in the fields. 

 It is invaluable to the walker, being now not only 

 the most interesting, but, excepting the narrow and 

 unpleasant track in the highways, the only practi- 

 cable route. The snow never lies so deep over it as 

 elsewhere, and, if deep, it sinks the ice and is soon 

 converted into snow ice to a great extent, beside 

 being blown out of the river valley. Here, where 

 you cannot walk at all in the summer, is better walk- 

 ing than elsewhere in the winter. 



Journal, viii, 121. 



