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rendered my visit as pleasing as it was profitable 

 to me. Friends pressed me to accompany 

 tliem to the pretty villages of Bakewell, Mat- 

 lock, and Buxton. It was a jaunt of pure 

 enjoyment. Nature was then at the 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 Car- 

 lisle. 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 indi- 

 viduals 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, Mr 

 James Wilson, Mr Neill, Mr Hay, Mr Combe, 

 Mr Hamilton, the Withams, the Lizarses, the 

 Symes, and the Nicholsons ; the Royal Society, 



