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    XXVI.—RAMBLES NORTHWARD.

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    We will take at random some fifty people...

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    Xxvi.—Rambles Northward.

    XXVI . —RAMBLES NORTHWARD . __^~ .

    We Will Take At Random Some Fifty People...

    We will take at random some fifty people whose yearly routine of

    life embraces within its circle a summer tour to tlie Continent or elsewhereand tting * the _question" You know the Rhine

    Switzerland , , etc . ? pu " forty-nine out of the , fifty Trill , we venture to , say , answer in the affirmative ; and even did we go further and

    inquire " You have made the tour of Italy ? " two-thirds at least would Now re out ply of " Yes these . " _fifjyif one confined one ' s question to British

    ground , , how many do you , suppose would be found to know as much of England , Scotland , and Wales fift , as they know of other

    countries ? Not one out of the whole y . Yet there are beauties as striking to be met with here as abroad ; glories of wood , mountain , valleyand riverto nothing of coast unequalled all the

    world , over for , beau say ty , wildness , and scenery sublimity . " Perhaps , " sasome one the fift" but then it is such a bore to go

    where ys you mee among t nothing but y Eng ; lish , cockney-English too , as in Wales and at the Lakesand as for the sea-side it is a bad imitation

    of London life , and I had , rather stay at home than join the vulgar dressing-, vulgar talking , and vulgar acting throngs wlio haunt those

    favorite places . " "Rihtfriendand who would not who has an atom of taste

    or feeling g ? , But , Great Britain , small as it looks upon the map of Europe , has many a lovely sequestred spot where cockney tourist

    never sets foot , many a broad mile of mountain , moor , and glen ,, known to few save the sparse and scattered inhabitants—hardy

    ,, hospitable mountaineers , among whom it is good and pleasant to dwell . Men of simple , healthy lives , hardy in mind and body ,

    intercourse with whom will do more to brace your shattered nerves and soothe your troubled spirit than hurrying to and fro from

    steamer to train , and train to hotel , which , after all , is what modern continental travel resolves itself intoreplacing the ordinary fatigues

    and excitements of life by fatigue and , excitement of another kind . " See the man set free from business or profession , with six weeks

    or two months' " leisure" before him ; one would think the spell of action strong upon him , so carefully does he calculate how much

    ground he can run over , how many sights he can see , in the limited number of days he may call his own ! Could this rapid travel be

    achieved by more of muscular and less of mental volition , could the traveller be freed from the hurry and press of thousands of

    other travellers , bent like himself upon seeing and doing in a few weeks what to do healthiland thoroughlwould take as many

    y y months , —then indeed miglii he reap health and refreshment from _,

    his " leisure , " such , as we ourselves reaped this early summer by a

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Nov. 1, 1859, page 171, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01111859/page/27/