32 _ 4 Pedeftrian Tour in England and Wales. 
of their manners; the civility and gentle- 
nefs of their carriage, efpecially towards 
their women, who are in no fort of fub- 
jection among them, as among favages ; 
their univerfal brotherly affection; their 
horror for the effufion of human blood; 
their idolatrous refpect for the dead, whom 
they only confider as perfons afleep ; and 
laftly, their hofpitality for ftrangers; I 
fhall leave to the journals the merit of en- 
Jarging on each of thefe particulars, as our 
admiration and our gratitude in juftice re- 
quire.” I fhall only add to my fummary 
defcription, that of the new iflands with- 
eut number, which we have touched at or 
difcovered; and amid all the extraordinary 
circumftances which have characterifed our 
expedition, no people-haye gained fo much 
my efteem, love, and'friendfhip, as the in- 
habitants of that beautiful, incomparable, 
happy ifland, among whom the golden age 
vainly fung by the poets feems realifed, 
and who, though immenfe in number, 
have never yet deviated from the fimple 
anftitutes of nature. I had at firft defigned 
to have given it the name of Utopia, which 
Sir Thomas More gave to his ideal re- 
public, deriving it-from the Greek roots 
eug and gore (felix locus); but I learned 
afterwards that M. de Bougainville had 
named it La Nouvelle Cythére, lis own 
inhabitants callit Taiti. K. 


ADS: Be ee 
A PEDESTRIAN EXCURSION THROUGH 
everal Parts of ENGLAND and 
Wares during the Summer of 1797. 
E The writer of the following journal has been 
from his infancy an enthufiaftic lover of that 
moral meditation which rocks and brooks and 
woodlands, and fragments of old caftles and 
Fuined abbeys, have a tendency to infpire. 
Purfuits, indeed, of a very different nature 
eftranged him, for feveral years, from the in- 
. dulgence of this propenfity. But the general 
afpeét of affairs having at length determined 
him te retire from public exertion, the im- 
preflions of early youth revived with increafing 
force. In the mean time circumftances had 
produced another fpecies of curiofity well cal- 
culated to go hand in hand with a paffion for 
the picturefque and romantic. Every fact 
connected with the hiftory and actual condition 
ei the laborious claffes had become important 
to a heart throbbing with anxiety for the 
welfare of the human race :.and fats of this 
defcription are not to be collected by remain- 
ing, ‘like a homely weed, fixed to one fpot.’’ 
Another motive, not lefs powerful than the 
former, conspired in prompting this eccentric 
ramble. On the Somerfetthire coat, and not 
many miles from Bridgewater, the author has 
an invaluable friend, well known in the literary 
world, whom as yet he had never feen,.but for 
whom, during the imperfect intercourfe of a 
familiar and confidential correfpondence, he 
c Augutt, 
had conceived all the affeftion of a brother. 
With this friend an opportunity of more imme 
diate and intimate Communication of fentiment 
had been long and mutually defired ; and as 
the family of the journaliit was then in Derby, 
he was determined to take the opportunity, in 
his way from Somerfetthire to that place, of 
vifiting fome of the picturefque and romantie 
fcenery of Wales. 
The reader is now in poffefion of the princi- 
pal motives and objects of this excurfion, and 
will accordingly be aware what fort of informa- 
tion he is to expect. It is only neceflary te 
add, that a companion of congenial mind 
increafed the pleafures of the earlier part of 
this ramble; but that, after the firtt fertnight, 
the journalift purfued his way, a folitary 
rambler, over many a mountain, and through 
many a delicious vale, where fometimes he - 
wandered an unnoticed ftranger, and was 
hailed at others with the moft cordial friendfhip 
and hofpitality. GaN : 
The journal that follows is rather a gleaning 
than the full harveit of thofe obférvations which 
the Jong-protracted ramble fo abundantly 
furnifhed : for the-naturé of a periodical pub- 
lication demands compreffion and /eleGiox + 
and hence the principal difficulty in the com- 
pofition of the following article: many paflages 
and adventures, which, in a detached publicas 
tion, would haye formed, perhaps, the mot 
interefting features of the work, being ‘of ne- 
ceflity omitted. It is hoped, however, that 
the fpecimen, fuch asit is, will not be found 
entirely deftitute of entertainment or informe 
tion ; in which two-fold view it is offered’ by 
the editor’s friend and fellow-labourer in the 
vineyard of truth. ] 
O* Thurfday, Fune 29, 17975 we fet 
_F off at between 9 and-ro in the fore- 
noon, in a heavy fhower of rain, with a 
large umbrella over our heads; being 
previoufly deterntined that our progrefs 
fhould not depend upon the caprices of 
winds and clouds. Tes 
_ As it was our intention to trace the 
banks of the Thames as far as Windfor, 
we directed our courfe towards Fulbaz 
Bridge, where the eye is regaled with the 
firftt glimpfe of rural {cenery. ‘The views 
from this bridge have certainly fome at- 
tractions, chiefly however derived from 
the tranquil grandeur of the river; for the 
buildings equally remind one of the tafte 
and vocations of a trading city, and the 
tea-garden ftile is confpicuous in the fur- 
rounding pleature- grounds and plantations. 
A @rizzling rain continued to fall: but, 
confidering the nature of the profpeck 
(whofe charaéter is rather luxuriance than 
extent or variety), neither the hazinefs of 
the atmefphere, nor the mift which curled 
along the furface of the water, and gave a 
grey and fober tint to the furrounding ob- 
jects, was any difparagemeni to the fcene, 
The cafe, however, was materially dif- 
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