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BARMOUTH. 
BY THE EDITOR. 
“ T7 ACATION TOURISTS ” make it tkeir business, once 
v a year, to strain every nerve in order to reach the 
remotest corners of the earth, to visit some unexplored or 
imperfectly-known region, and accomplish the journey home, 
during the period called “the vacation.” That the last is a 
somewhat indefinite term is obvious, from the fact that it 
enables one gentleman to set foot on the Fiji Islands ; another, 
to admire the scenery of the river Amazon ; a third, to com- 
pass a nine weeks’ tom’ in Canada; and a fourth, to sun himself 
on the banks of the Niger, and in other portions of tropical 
Africa ! How these feats can be accomplished within a period 
which we have usually supposed to be limited to five or six 
weeks, we are at a loss to understand, and it is not our 
business to institute an inquiry ; but, however it may be 
managed, we fear that, after the revelations of those hardy 
travellers who brave the perils of the ocean wilds and moun- 
tain avalanches, the burning desert and the knife of the 
savage, in order to serve up a palatable dish of adventures for 
their readers at home; after a perusal of the narratives of 
these bold adventurers, we say, there can be little hope that our 
readers will find much to interest them in the few notes taken 
during a “ vacation tour in Wales,” comprising a sojourn of 
ten or twelve days at a quiet little fishing town, and a series of 
short excursions in its vicinity. 
We shall take courage notwithstanding; conscious that if we 
are unable to satisfy that craving after the marvellous, which 
can only be appeased by stories of hair-breadth escapes from 
such dangers as we have just referred to, yet we have the 
advantage of being' able to direct the attention of our readers 
to scenes of beauty and interest lying at their own doors, and 
to speak to them of pleasures, in every way rational and 
desirable, which they may themselves enjoy, instead of 
receiving them, with or without modifications, at the hands of 
others, and participating in them only in imagination. For it 
matters little to what class or section of society the reader 
belongs ; be he rich or poor, sick, careworn, or ripe for sport 
