CONTENTS

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INTRODUCTION[1]
H. Belloc
WALKING AN ANTIDOTE TO CITY POISON[17]
Sidney Smith
ON GOING A JOURNEY[19]
William Hazlitt
THE BISHOP OF SALISBURY'S HORSE[37]
Izaak Walton
A STROLLING PEDLAR[39]
Sir Walter Scott
A STOUT PEDESTRIAN[42]
Sir Walter Scott
LAKE SCENERY[48]
William Wordsworth
WALKING, AND THE WILD[52]
H. D. Thoreau
A YOUNG TRAMP[104]
Charles Dickens
DE QUINCEY LEADS THE SIMPLE LIFE[111]
Thomas de Quincey
A RESOLUTION[116]
George Borrow
THE SNOWDON RANGER[131]
George Borrow
SONG OF THE OPEN ROAD[143]
Walt Whitman
WALKING TOURS[159]
R. L. Stevenson
SYLVANUS URBAN DISCOVERS A GOOD BREW[173]
Gentleman's Magazine
MINCHMOOR[175]
Dr John Brown
IN PRAISE OF WALKING[191]
Leslie Stephen
THE EXHILARATIONS OF THE ROAD[221]
John Burroughs