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.
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
