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I.

The Amateur Emigrant: From The Clyde To Sandy Hook—

   The Second Cabin

3

   Early Impressions

11

   Steerage Scenes

21

   Steerage Types

30

   The Sick Man

42

   The Stowaways

53

   Personal Experience And Review

69

   New York

81

II.

Cockermouth And Keswick

93

   Cockermouth

94

   An Evangelist

97

   Another

100

   Last Of Smethurst

102

III.

An Autumn Effect

106

IV.

A Winter’s Walk In Carrick And Galloway

131

V.

Forest Notes—

   On The Plains

144

   In The Season

149

   Idle Hours

153

   A Pleasure-Party

157

   The Woods In Spring

164

   Morality

169

VI.

A Mountain Town In France

175

VII.

Random Memories: Rosa Quo Locorum

189

VII.

The Ideal House

199

IX.

Davos In Winter

207

X.

Health And Mountains

212

XI.

Alpine Diversion

217

XII.

The Stimulation Of The Alps

222

XIII.

Roads

227

XIV.

On The Enjoyment Of Unpleasant Places

237