EXTRACTS

FROM

MY JOURNAL.

M.DCCC.LII.

"It is a strange thing that, in sea voyages, where there is nothing to be
seen but sky and sea, men should make diaries; but in land travel, wherein
so much is to be observed, for the most part they omit it: as if chance were
fitter to be registered than observation; let diaries, therefore be brought in
use."-BACON's Essay on Travel.

PRINTED FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION ONLY.

Norwich:

CHARLES MUSKETT, OLD HAYMARKET.

1853.

Swi 654.1.6 57.1.6

HARVARD
UNIVERSITY
LIBRARY

July 1942

In memory

Prof, and dives. A. Lawrence Rotch

PREFACE.

THE following pages contain Extracts from a Journal which I kept during a Tour with my friend, Charles Sargent, through parts of Switzerland, Italy, and the Tyrol, in the past Autumn.

On

my return, many expressed a wish

"That I would all my pilgrimage dilate,

Whereof by parcels they had something heard,
But not intentively "-

or, if not all, at least the particulars of our ascent of Mont Blanc. Those whose curiosity I was most anxious to gratify while the adventure was fresh in my recollection, were nearly all of them separated from me, and from each other, by many a league of land and sea; my Journal was too voluminous for general circulation, and it required the pen of a readier writer than myself to indite