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I. The Amateur Emigrant: From The Clyde To Sandy
Hook—
The Second Cabin 3
Early Impressions 11
Steerage Scenes 21
Steerage Types 30
The Sick Man 42
The Stowaways 53
Personal Experience And Review 69
New York 81
II. Cockermouth And Keswick 93
Cockermouth 94
An Evangelist 97
Another 100
Last Of Smethurst 102
III. An Autumn Effect 106
IV. A Winter’s Walk In Carrick And Galloway 131
V. Forest Notes—
On The Plains 144
In The Season 149
Idle Hours 153
A Pleasure-Party 157
The Woods In Spring 164
Morality 169
VI. A Mountain Town In France 175
VII. Random Memories: _Rosa Quo Locorum_ 189
VII. The Ideal House 199
IX. Davos In Winter 207
X. Health And Mountains 212
XI. Alpine Diversion 217
XII. The Stimulation Of The Alps 222
XIII. Roads 227
XIV. On The Enjoyment Of Unpleasant Places 237
I.
THE AMATEUR EMIGRANT
To
ROBERT ALAN MOWBRAY STEVENSON
Our friendship was not only founded before we were born by a community of
blood, but is in itself near as old as my life. It began with our early
ages, and, like a history, has been continued to the present time.
Although we may not be old in the world, we are old to each other, having
so long been intimates. We are now widely separated, a great sea and
continent intervening; but memory, like care, mounts into iron ships and
rides post behind the horseman. Neither time nor space nor enmity can
conquer old affection; and as I dedicate these sketches, it is not to you
only, but to all in the old country, that I send the greeting of my
heart.