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Rh and civilization made him feel that he ought to study at first-hand the culture and civilization of the land from which his ancestors had come and which was akin to that of his native land. Philadelphians, especially Quakers, feel more at home in England than anywhere else abroad. The diary records visits to Cambridge, Sheffield, Leeds, York, Ripon, Newcastle, Berwick, Kelso, Sidbury, and Melrose Abbey, on the way to Edinburgh. He went from Edinburgh to Dundee on a small steamer; thence to Sterling, Callander, the Trossachs, Dumbarton, and Glasgow. There he took a steamer to Belfast, went north to the Giant's Causeway, and then to Dublin. After Ireland, Wales. He crossed from Kingston to Holyhead; thence to Bangor, Chester, and Liverpool. Once more in England he visited Birmingham, Warwick, and Stratford-on-Avon. The diary ends abruptly with an account of Lord Mayor's day after his return to London in November.

These details are given to show that it was not an idling pleasure excursion that Isaiah Williamson undertook in those days of limited conveniences for rapid travel. He