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THE END OF THE TOUR.

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he met Mr. John Scott and his young bride, and perhaps compared notes about Blackshields and the Newcastle road.[1] To his friend, Dr. Taylor, he wrote that "he had traversed the east coast of Scotland from south to north, from Edinburgh to Inverness, and

HAWTHORNDEN.
HAWTHORNDEN.

HAWTHORNDEN.

the west-coast from north to south, from the Highlands to Glasgow."[2]

"The time he spent in his Tour, was," he often said, "the

  1. ↑ Boswell's Johnson, ii. 268.
  2. ↑ The original letter of which a facsimile is given is in my possession. See Appendix B.
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