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perform with pleasure * is much greater than is usually supposed . Amid fine scenery , there are few men under fifty who will not widfc twelve or fifteen miles in a summer ' s day with pleasure ; and by increasing the daily distance gradually , twenty or thirty miles may soon be attained by any young man in ordinary health , with
great satisfaction and with scarce any feeling of fatigue . If * indeed , the pedestrian will walk as if he were blindfolded , he may feel tired at the end of a mile , as he certainly would at the end of an hour if he were to sit still doing nothing ; but a moderate appreciation of the beauties of fine scenery will necessarily dispel th& fatigue of indolence . A lave of nature , though wanting
( which is sometimes the ease with the indweller of cities , ) is fortunately soon acquired by the pedestrian . Two or three persons of accordant tastes walking together , will greatly enhance each other ' s pleasures ; but even when alone much pleasure may be enjoyed by an active pedestrian . Occasionally one ought to be alone ; one should dare to be alone ; though , as a general rule ,
it is better for the social animal that his pleasures should be taken iii company with his kind . One advantage of being alone is , that the wayfarer is thrown exclusively upon external nature and chance society , and has a strong inducement to examine them thoroughly ; though , on the other hand , occasional tedium is prevented by social travelling , and each one profits by the mental resources of the rest .
Wild and visionary as the scheme may appear , and impractir cable theorists as those may seem who advocate the habit of using the legs , it Is notorious to all who have been in Wales or Cumberland , that the impracticable theory is there reduced to practice by many persons every year , with much satisfaction ; and nothing is more common in Germany and Switzerland than for young men
to take long tours of this description as a part of their education . Some of the German schoolmasters make a point of taking a number of their pupils on walking tours in the holidays , and of stopping to examine minutely whatever is worthy of notice in their progress . And some who have proceeded on these school-walkingtours describe this as the most interesting and instructive portion
of their education . The proper requisites for a journey of this description are seldom known to the young pedestrian until he has made at least one tour , and suffered inconvenience from the want of them . The just medium is rarely preserved ; he often encumbers himself with things he does not want , and omits things which are very desirable
The mountainous parts of this country are very subject to heavy showers even in the middle of summer , which renders a change of clothes essentially requisite . A frock-coat or shooting-jaeket * with large pockets , cannot be too strongly recommended as the general attire , and the former in preference to the latter , as possessing many of the advantages of a great coat . Two pairs of
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The Pleasures cf Walking . 190
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1835, page 199, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2643/page/55/
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