【英文原著类】Tour through the Eastern Counties of England(英格兰东部游记).pdf

Tour through the Eastern Counties of England
Tour through the Eastern
Counties of England
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Tour through the Eastern Counties of England
Tour through the Eastern Counties
of England
I began my travels where I purpose to end them, viz., at the City of
London, and therefore my account of the city itself e last, that is
to say, at the latter end of my southern progress; and as in the course of
this journey I shall have many occasions to call it a circuit, if not a circle,
so I chose to give it the title of circuits in the plural, because I do not
pretend to have travelled it all in one journey, but in many, and some of
them many times over; the better to inform myself of everything I could
find worth taking notice of.
I hope it will appear that I am not the less, but the more capable of
giving a full account of things, by how much the more deliberation I have
taken in the view of them, and by how much the oftener I have had
opportunity to see them.
I set out the 3rd of April, 1722, going first eastward, and took what I
think I may very honestly call a circuit in the very letter of it; for I went
down by the coast of the Thames through the Marshes or Hundreds on the
south side of the county of Essex, till I came to Malden, Colchester, and
Harwich, thence continuing on the coast of Suffolk to Yarmouth; thence
round by the edge of the sea, on the north and west side of Norfolk, to
Lynn, Wisbech, and the Wash; thence back again, on the north side of
Suffolk and Essex, to the west, ending it in Middlesex, near the place
where I began it, reserving the middle or centre of the several counties to
some little excursions, which I made by themselves.
Passing Bow Bridge, where the county of Essex begins, the first
observation I made was, that all the villages which may be called the
neighbourhood of the city of London on this, as well as on the other sides
thereof, which I shall speak to in their order; I say, all those villages are
increa