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pointing out to you in these etchings where you may see the pictures at full length,

* I will not, however, refuse you a list of the towns which form the regular tracts from LONDON to LYNN, the only town of note bordering in this part of Norfolk, in case you should pass them in day-light, in the meditative way I should myself have used, had I not been governed, at my setting out, by uncontroulable circumstances.

And this turnpike-road intelligence is ready cut and dried for you in at least as many books as there are miles betwixt London and Lynn. I shall, however, borrow from the Roadist deemed the most accurate; and whose information is as follows:

I can scarce form any idea of what a sensible

foreigner must feel on his first view of the

Some of these will come within the proposed path of my observation on my return; and such as do not, will deserve to be made in yours, because there is not one of them, which, in the months most favourable to excursion, will not offer something for the curiosity, pleasure, improvement, or admiration of a sensible traveller. But, as I think, meagre descriptions far worse than no descriptions at all, I shall only select one or two prominent points of remark, to serve for memoranda, as you pause to examine; or should you pass rapidly, that you may not entirely overlook, or run by them.

The noble and extensive Forest of EPPING, will have a charm for the lover of nature for you, my Friend, in every tree, in every bush; and the lover of art will see fair reason to be pleased with the many splendid villas and elegant cottages, interspersed about and within it. The word cottage, is now used a little proudly, if not affectedly, to signify the very beautiful, and frequently the very superb, residence of cottagers, who carry the splendours of the town into even such recesses of the country, as make Nature hide her blushing GRACES amidst her own roses, or seek a modest refuge, and lie concealed in some green dell of her forest upon a simple sod; as if fearful of setting her timid foot on the flaunting, garish carpets of her ostentatious rival. EPPING FOREST, was granted by Edward the Confessor, to his favourite Randolph Pepper, after

various novelties which are obvious even on the surface of England: To a German, Dutch, or French traveller, it must certainly seem an original land; because it is in many respects altogether dissimilar from what either of them can have seen on their native shores, or, indeed, any where else. The agriculture, the gardening, the natural and artificial arrangements, the vegetation, and numberless productions both

wards called Peverell; who, it is said, having a beautiful lady for his wife, William the Conqueror fell in love with her, and soon proved himself the lady's conqueror, for the hero had a son by her, and called him William Peverell But heroes, you know, have not time to spare for the conquests of themselves; the public good, no doubt, they think a kind of set-off against private wrong:-or, do these mighty ones, find it easier to subdue the great globe itself, than to regulate the little world in their own bosoms? There, a maiden of fifteen, if she be well-born and chastely educated, even if she has a strong, but pure passion in her heart, and, perhaps, its first love, has more self-government and virtue than a thousand such conquerors.

AUDLEY END, near WALDEN, will gratify your love of architectural antiquity, and your admiration of nature, whose charms are ever young, were you to give it a whole day's attention and homage. The villa, called SHORTGROVE, at about forty miles from London, occupied by Mr. WYNDHAM, has for its owner one of the first men of our island, whether he be considered as an English noble man, a relative, or a friend the EARL of EGREMONT. And Mark-Hall, near Potter's-Street, is, or was lately, the seat of one of the LUSHINGTON'S -a family, which, on account of its integrity, might be shewn to foreigners amongst the worthies of the land.

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of the fancy, the spirit, and the genius, are peculiar. Instead of stately rows of trees, awful and equidistant, in the straight line, and a level of many an unvaried league that fatigues the eye eye and a stony ridge in the middle of the highway, with sandy, sinking slopes on each side, which, though canopied with aspiring foliage, and displaying an air of gothic grandeur, amusing and imposing at first, soon weary by their uniformity, and by the heavy hours we are constrained to pass in the sad sepulchral vehicles, that "drag their slow length along," instead of these, a traveller no sooner recovers the dizziness of passing the water, than all at once, he finds himself, in almost every part of the island, transported as it were, to a new region, where every object must have the effect of a magical illusion. In an almost flying car, he is lightly and rapidly borne on a smooth expanse, to the summit of a flowery, fertile hill, or down the soft declivities of a valley, the horse-path usually social enough to admit three or four, and sometimes as many carriages abreast; all running, as we call it, bowlingly

on the nail, with scarce a pebble in the way on a fine gravel which binds to the firmness, and, even in the first trading country in the world, almost preserves the beauty of a gardenwalk, without one dislocating rut. The footpaths, he perceives, are either across cultivated pastures or corn-grounds, or through clustering thickets, or by woods of more ambitious extent, and yet not sufficiently deep and continuous to be dreary. Such farms and cottages too, as the sons of Industry and Toil can rarely boast in any other land, are seen springing up to cheer his progress betwixt village and village, town and town; and then each side of him even in the public highway, he is presented with either an entertaining, or a rich variety, by the innumerable and rapid turnings of the path, forming a complete contrast to the ceremonious foliage of the road-side scenery of the Continent. There, you know, the solemn firs are often drawn up like grenadiers at roll-call, or a more formidable troop of giants, standing as perpendicular, and at measured spaces as if they had been drilled, just in the style of our old