PREFACE.
A Traveller in climes so generally visited, as those which have given subjects to the present volume, will find it difficult to say what has not been said before. By every celebrated stream, or mountain, amid the ivy of every mouldering ruin, at the gate of every castle, palace, and cathedral, he doubtless met other travellers, with their note-books; and what he saw and described, they also may see and describe, perchance with a more glowing pencil.
Yet if he must resign the prospect of finding untrodden paths, he may still fix upon some spots, where it will be profitable both to muse and to record impressions; and if he forfeits the right of discovery, may retain the power of promoting good and pleasurable feelings. With such hopes the following pages have been drawn forth, and modified from the notes
