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 the holy lake. This assemblage of pilgrims is very curious, but at the same time it makes the road much less agreeable. It is difficult to find an inn where one is not annoyed by a large number of them.

If this itinerary is followed, you will have travelled upon the Reiheishi kaidô in almost its whole length. As I already have had occasion to remark in the itinerary from Tôkei to Kusatsu, the Reiheishi kaidô separates itself from the Nakasendô (or Kisokaidô) at Honjô, passes thence directly northwards, over the Tonegawa, and continues its northerly direction as far as the village of Goriô, the point where we again meet the road in coming from Takasaki.

From Goriô to Tomita, that is to say for almost 15 ri, the Reiheishi kaidô follows a northwesterly direction, passing over 12 or 15 more or less important tributaries to the left bank of the Tonegawa.

From Tomita to Imaichi the road again turns to the North, and thence after having joined the Nikkôkaidô, or the road from Yedo to Nikkô, it goes eastward to Nikkô.