[Appendix II]
The following is Wordsworth's Itinerary of the Tour, taken by him and his friend Jones, which gave rise to
Descriptive Sketches
.
| month | day | location |
|---|---|---|
| July | 13 | Calais |
| 14 | Ardres | |
| 17 | Péronne | |
| 18 | village near Coucy | |
| 19 | Soissons | |
| 20 | Château Thierry | |
| 21 | Sézanne | |
| 22 | village near Troyes | |
| 23 | Bar-le-Duc | |
| 24 | Chatillon-sur-Seine | |
| 26 | Nuits | |
| 27-8 | Châlons | |
| 29 | on the Saône | |
| 30 | Lyons | |
| 31 | Condrieu | |
| August | 1 | Moreau |
| 2 | Voreppe | |
| 3 | village near Chartreuse | |
| 4 | Chartreuse | |
| 6 | Aix | |
| 7 | town in Savoy | |
| 8 | town on Lake of Geneva | |
| 9 | Lausanne | |
| 10 | Villeneuve | |
| 11 | St. Maurice in the Valais | |
| 12-3 | Chamouny | |
| 14 | Martigny | |
| 15 | village beyond Sion | |
| 16 | Brieg | |
| 17 | Spital on Alps | |
| 18 | Margozza | |
| 19 | vllage beyond Lago Maggiore | |
| 20 | village on Lago di Como. | |
| 21 | village beyond Gravedona | |
| 22 | Jones at Chiavenna; W. W. at Samolaco | |
| 23 | Sovozza | |
| 24 | Splügen | |
| 25 | Flems | |
| 26 | Dissentis | |
| 27 | village on the Reuss | |
| 28 | Fluelen | |
| 29 | Lucerne | |
| 30 | village on the Lake of Zurich | |
| 31 | Einsiedlen | |
| September | 1-2 | Glarus |
| 3 | village beyond Lake of Wallenstadt | |
| 4 | village on road to Appenzell | |
| 5 | Appenzell | |
| 6 | Keswill, on Lake of Constance | |
| 7-8 | on the Rhine | |
| 9 | on road to Lucerne | |
| 10 | Lucerne | |
| 11 | Saxeln | |
| 12 | Village on the Aar | |
| 13 | Grindelwald | |
| 14 | Lauterbrunnen | |
| 15 | Village three leagues from Berne | |
| 16 | Avranches | |
| 19 | village beyond Pierre Pertuises | |
| 20 | village four leagues from Basle | |
| 21 | Basle | |
| 22 | Town six leagues from Strasburg | |
| 23 | Spires | |
| 24 | Village on Rhine | |
| 25 | Mentz, Mayence | |
| 27 | village on Rhine, two leagues from Coblentz | |
| 28 | Cologne | |
| 29 | Village three leagues from Aix-la-Chapelle |
The pedestrians bought a boat at Basle, and in it floated down the Rhine as far as Cologne, intending to proceed in the same way to Ostend; but they returned to England from Cologne by Calais. In the course of this tour, Wordsworth wrote a letter to his sister, dated "Sept. 6, 1790, Keswill, a small village on the Lake of Constance," which will be found amongst his letters in a subsequent volume.—Ed.