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next morning, and after breakfast he proceeded on 
his journey down Langdale—past Ambleside— 
along the east side of Windermere, and reached 
Kendal about five o’clock on Sunday afternoon, 10th 
October. He was much impressed with the beauty 
of Windermere and its surroundings, which he 
describes with warm appreciation. 
He had now his first experience of a Sunday 
in England. 
. /‘Ilike not,” he writes, “to see the Sabbath 
violated by people who profess the Christian 
religion. To-day, for the first time, I saw it 
violated, and I was shocked. In one place I saw 
boys flying a kite, and in another I met a parcel of 
pedlars. The bread and fruit shops were open 
everywhere, and on a lake ” (no doubt Windermere)' 
“ I saw people sailing for pleasure. I like to see 
the Sabbath kept, even with puritanical strictness. 
* ^ may be a Scotch prejudice — no, it is no 
piejudice. Eevotion ot one day in seven to 
religious exercises is absolutely necessary to keep 
m mind the chief end of our existence. It seems 
to confirm religious habits, and when the Scottish 
peasantiy begin to think lightly of breaking the 
Sabbath, they will become less virtuous.” 
He wrote the above at Kendal on Sunday night, 
seated in an easy chair by a large fire in the parlour 
of the inn in which he found lodging, after applying 
without success at various other inns. 
“At 10 o’clock,” he writes, “I have now taken 
supper, and a pint of ale and a glass of rum, and a 
smoke of tobacco, and have sweated out at a large 
fire the water which I drank on the road to-day.” 
