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    of teav ® B@r ^ is / t $ 'attenrat ^ too ; niuch ^ r ^ < jaarfce «> b £ the ^ district w « ll se © rar wiltdoraendre * g&odi tdithe tHavelle ^ thaa ti ^^ V hote district merely glanced at . / Many a ) travelfer has set out ) with this * determination to see < the wbole of Noirth Wales in a fortnight . Jfc fee persists in ; his attempt , walking is altogether out of the * question

    a few roads are passed over rapidly and uneasily ) a faw towns are glanced aV and the memory of the journey soon passes away . North Wales would well repay a two months' excursion , or three or four tours of a fortnight . But , says the young touristy if I do not see North Wales now , I may never have another opportunity . An opportunity of doing what ? Not of seeing all North Wales r because , in the limited time , that is impossible , but an

    opportunity of saying that you have been in half a dozen roads , towns , and villages , extra , and have seen , or rather have whirled by without seeing , a dozen crack views ; and have missed seeing well , or understanding or enjoying any one thing or any one district in the progress of the journey . Travelling in the usual superficial mode is always fatiguing , and becomes tiresome and unbearable after the first novelty is worn off . You glide by mountains , and

    valleys , and lakes , and are delighted ; you pass more , and are pleased ; but in a little while the . novelty is off , and you care no longer for the almost identical and everlasting mountains , lakes , and valleys . The pedestrian does not dash through a country ; he dwells in it and on it ; and , contemplating at leisure every scene , he not only seizes its beauties , characteristics , and

    resemblances to kindred spots , but its differences from these , and < its remarkable differences at times from itself . He sees something more than a line of filmy forms flitting by , each one a repetition of the rest ; and thus his appetite , instead of palling , grows by what it feeds on . He sinks the mere sight-seer into the student of nature , her admirer and friend ; his faculties are excited , his

    (soul is raised , and he is storing up rich and lasting adornments and treasures in his mind . Great importance is attached by some rational travellers to a journal of the scenes they have visited , and of the impression which these scenes have produced , which journal should be written , at the earliest possible moment after the scenes have been respectively visited . Not merely regarding the journal as an amusement for friends and as a memento afterwards to > themselves

    of what they have seen , they hold this translation -of visual impressions and the coexistent thoughts and feelings into clear language , to be an important incitement to future exertion and excellence . We thus become , as it were , two ; for we pass under the review of one calm state o £ mind , our transactions in a very

    different condition ; we resolve and ruminate over the past ; we view objects external and intellectual in new though less vivid colours ; and we strengthen and sharpenour faculties ' so -as to improve still more our future opportunities . At first , however ,

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    The" Pft&frt # e « <^ W ^ alkh ^ 201

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1835, page 201, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2643/page/57/