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"I am a great friend to travelling: it enlarges the mind, suggests new ideas, removes prejudices, and sharpens the appetite." Narrative of a Journey from Hampstead to Hendon.

travel for many acquirements—health, information, amusement, notoriety, &c. &c. The advantages of each of these acquisitions have been eloquently set forth from the days of Ulysses, who travelled to seek his native land, to those of the members of the club who travel to seek anything else. But one of its enjoyments has never received its full share of credit—albeit the staple of them all—we mean the good appetite it invariably produces. What are the periods on which the traveller dwells with the most satisfaction—the events he recalls with the most dramatic effect—the incidents which at once arrest the attention of his hearers? Why—"That delicious breakfast in the Swiss valley. We had travelled some miles before eight o'clock,