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    ments far short of those of the ^ prt ) fe ^ sed fytttet # ill be ; siifficfent for purposes of pleasure , afi'd ' ' m ^ h ^^ idftidtiQn vm ^ ; l ( e- 4 ^ j ^ from small outline sketches / which anyone , afteir st fe \ V tri&ls , may readily take .. It is not to be imagined , without Actual

    experience ., how many objects , events , and emotions will be renewed long * afterwards , by a glance at a few scratches of the pencil made on the spot , which are hardly to be deciphered by any but ourselves . A written journal will do much ; and , in conjunction with a graphic journal , will all but restore the past to the

    present . Acquaintance with botany and mineralogy will cause us to observe many gratifying objects which otherwise we should have passed unheeded . It is astonishing how heedless we are of a thousand noticeable physical objects which present themselves before us . We are like the blind amid beautiful colours and

    elegant and ever-varying forms ; we are in fact next to blind ; for though we may see nature as a beauteous whole , and rejoice thereat exceedingly , our eyes are closed to most of the minor beautiess of the mineral and vegetable kingdoms , which are , nevertheless , formed to give delight , and come in with their gentle and vurying aid when we have had our fill of larger prospects . The fact of

    having previously observed a few of the more common minerals will open our eyes wonderfully as regards the mineral kingdom wherever we go ; and an equally superficial examination of the parts and structure of a few plants , and a slight knowledge © ft the Linncean system , will bring many an interesting plant undei ^ our notice at times when we are not in a humour for anything m ^ re

    extensive . The townsman , whose youth was passed in the country , finds that an occasional return to it is of real importance . A thousand joyous reminiscences are excited , and pleasurable trains of tjio / ught kept up which form the basis of a cheerful character ^ but which continued absence is sure to weaken or efface at the time when

    advancing age most needs their aid . * These beauteous forms , Through a long absence , have not been to me As is a landscape to a blind man ' s eye : But oft , in lonely rooms , and ' mid the din Of towns and cities , I have owed to them , In hours of weariness , sensations sweet , Felt in the blood , and felt along the heart ; And passing even into my purer mind With tranquil restoration ; feelings , too , Of unremembered pleasure ; such , perhaps , As have lio slight or trivial influence On that best portion of a good man ' s life , His little , nameless , unremembered acts Of fciniifteete and of love / ' < . - Wordsworth .

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    The Pleasures 6 / Walking . 197

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1835, page 197, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2643/page/53/