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Rh he met Mr. John Scott and his young bride, and perhaps compared notes about Blackshields and the Newcastle road. To his friend, Dr. Taylor, he wrote that "he had traversed the east coast of Scotland from south to north, from Edinburgh to Inverness, and

HAWTHORNDEN.

the west-coast from north to south, from the Highlands to Glasgow."

"The time he spent in his Tour, was," he often said, "the