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ABERDEEN UNIVERSITY LIFE [ch. ii. 
that is one and twenty pence a day. I thought to 
have travelled more cheaply than I do, but I find 
it needless to torment myself with bad meals. If 
theie were necessity for it, I know by experience 
that 1 can bear hunger as well as most people; but 
ds there is not, I will even indulge my gluttonous 
appetite so far as to live upon about one-third of 
what the generality of travellers placed exactly in 
my circumstances, excepting in regard to the article 
pecunia, would expend and would think little 
e , Q ^ gh - „ I once ^veiled 240 miles upon twelve 
shillings. 
On bunday (16th October) he is at Lough¬ 
borough, Leicestershire, and writes :— 
I have advanced 50 miles since entering my 
last report, so that I am now within 110 miles of 
the great city of the south. On Friday at twelve 
o clock I left Buxton. . . . Jupiter and Flora both 
smiled bemgnantly upon me. The weather was so 
fine that larks were singing as on an April morning, 
and I had not proceeded a quarter of a mile when I 
observed an unknown plant,” and then he discovered 
other two that were new to him. “ Everything 
conspires,” he continues, “torender me cheerful_ 
the serenity of the weather, the agreeable keen nip 
of the air, the finding of these plants, and the feeling 
of perfect health and freshness—but above all the 
wideness of the prospect and the change in the 
nature of the country over which I had passed. 
The idea of liberty was associated with the 
appearance of the country, and my heart bounded 
with gladness.” 
As he proceeded, however, the character of the 
country changed. 
