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our journal is scanty and feeble ; we are discontented that we can fix so little of what we hare observed and experienced . But we persevere ; and floods soon pour from the pen to renew the past and fix it more vividly and permanently in the mind . That which was first a trouble , soon ceases to annoy , and afterwards becomes a delight . The drawing-book becomes another journal for those who can sketch , recalling place and time more vividl y than anv other .
There can seldom be difficulty in finding the way when the neighbourhood is populous ; but this is not the casein thinlypeopled districts ; there the traveller has to rely entirely on himself He must therefore learn that important branch of pedestrianism , the art of always knowing where he is , by carefully studying his map , examining and learning the bearings of the country , keeping in remembrance the forms of the mountains and eminences with
due allowance for change of position ; and though he must expect to be sadly wrong at first , he will eventually acquire great facility in finding his way through the most trackless wastes with bold and joyous self-reliance , and will thereafter dispense with that great and expensive nuisance , a guide . But if he will not take
pains , either from indolence , or from ignorance of the proper mode of setting about it , he will frequently lose himself every half-hour . Some men , though in a new country , never lose themselves ; they seem to find their way , as it were , by instinct ; yet they are masters of an art that any one , with a little trouble , may attain .
We may take North Wales for the exempli cation of some of the above remarks . If the pedestrian enters North Wales by the Holyhead road , and is restricted in time , he may proceed by stage to Llangollen , which will form an admirable centre for three or four days , from its very striking situation . Capel Cerrig ^ ( or Bettws Bridge , ) which is in the neighbourhood of the most magnificent of the Welsh mountains , should be the next centre for at
least three days . From thence the pedestrian will be well repaid by walking through the vale of Llanrwst to Conway , which will occupy a day or two pleasantly . Bangor and the Menai Bridge form the next good centre . The bridge should be crossed ; and the pedestrian will be repaid by continuing his path through
Lord Anglesey's park , and then crossing the ferry into the Carnarvon road . Carnarvon will occupy a day at least . Our traveller will then march to Bethgelert by Bettws and Llyn Cwellyn , and , if possible , will go half down the Drws y Coed . Bethgelert is a good centre for several days . The next point , for a day or so , is Trem&doc . After this the embankment should be crossed ; and
either the Tan y Bwlch or Ffestiniog will form another centre for a few days . Barmouth is worth one day ; and Dolgell y well merits three or four . Machynlleth , Aberystwith , Devil * s Bridge , and Rhyader are also worthy of being mad £ centres , according * to the titne whieh the pedestrian can bestow . An active pedestrian
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$ 0 $ The Pleasure * ef Walking .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1835, page 202, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2643/page/58/
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