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Table of Contents

  1. Titlepage
  2. Imprint
  3. An Inland Voyage
    1. To Sir Walter Grindlay Simpson, Bart.
    2. Preface to the First Edition
    3. Antwerp to Boom
    4. On the Willebroek Canal
    5. The Royal Sport Nautique
    6. At Maubeuge
    7. On the Sambre Canalised: To Quartes
    8. Pont-sur-Sambre: We Are Pedlars
    9. Pont-sur-Sambre: The Travelling Merchant
    10. On the Sambre Canalised: To Landrecies
    11. At Landrecies
    12. Sambre and Oise Canal: Canal Boats
    13. The Oise in Flood
    14. Origny Sainte-Benoîte: A By-Day
    15. Origny Sainte-Benoîte: The Company at Table
    16. Down the Oise: To Moy
    17. La Fère of Cursed Memory
    18. Down the Oise: Through the Golden Valley
    19. Noyon Cathedral
    20. Down the Oise: To Compiègne
    21. At Compiègne
    22. Changed Times
    23. Down the Oise: Church Interiors
    24. Précy and the Marionnettes
    25. Back to the World
    26. Epilogue to An Inland Voyage
  4. Edinburgh
    1. I: Introductory
    2. II: Old Town—The Lands
    3. III: The Parliament Close
    4. IV: Legends
    5. V: Greyfriars
    6. VI: New Town—Town and Country
    7. VII: The Villa Quarters
    8. VIII: The Calton Hill
    9. IX: Winter and New Year
    10. X: To the Pentland Hills
  5. Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes
    1. A Mountain Town in France
    2. Velay
      1. The Donkey, the Pack, and the Packsaddle
      2. The Green Donkey-Driver
      3. I Have a Goad
    3. Upper Gévaudan
      1. A Camp in the Dark
      2. Cheylard and Luc
    4. Our Lady of the Snows
      1. Father Apollinaris
      2. The Monks
      3. The Boarders
    5. Upper Gévaudan (Continued)
      1. Across the Goulet
      2. A Night Among the Pines
    6. The Country of the Camisards
      1. Across the Lozère
      2. Pont de Montvert
      3. In the Valley of the Tarn
      4. Florac
      5. In the Valley of the Mimente
      6. The Heart of the Country
      7. The Last Day
      8. Farewell, Modestine!
  6. The Amateur Emigrant
    1. The Second Cabin
    2. Early Impressions
    3. Steerage Scenes
    4. Steerage Types
    5. The Sick Man
    6. The Stowaways
    7. Personal Experience and Review
    8. New York
  7. Across the Plains
    1. Leaves from the Notebook of an Emigrant Between New York and San Francisco
    2. The Emigrant Train
    3. The Plains of Nebraska
    4. The Desert of Wyoming
    5. Fellow-Passengers
    6. Despised Races
    7. To the Golden Gates
  8. The Old and New Pacific Capitals
    1. Monterey
      1. The Woods and the Pacific
      2. Mexicans, Americans, and Indians
    2. San Francisco
  9. The Silverado Squatters
    1. In the Valley
      1. I: Calistoga
      2. II: The Petrified Forest
      3. III: Napa Wine
      4. IV: The Scot Abroad
    2. With the Children of Israel
      1. I: To Introduce Mr. Kelmar
      2. II: First Impressions of Silverado
      3. III: The Return
    3. The Act of Squatting
    4. The Hunter’s Family
    5. The Sea Fogs
    6. The Toll House
    7. A Starry Drive
    8. Episodes in the Story of a Mine
    9. Toils and Pleasures
  10. Fontainebleau
    1. I
    2. II
    3. III
    4. IV
    5. V
    6. VI
    7. VII
  11. The Coast of Fife
  12. The Education of an Engineer
  13. Cockermouth and Keswick
    1. Cockermouth
    2. An Evangelist
    3. Another
    4. Last of Smethurst
  14. An Autumn Effect
  15. A Winter’s Walk in Carrick and Galloway
  16. Forest Notes
    1. On the Plain
    2. In the Season
    3. Idle Hours
    4. A Pleasure-Party
    5. The Woods in Spring
    6. Morality
  17. Davos in Winter
  18. Health and Mountains
  19. Alpine Diversions
  20. The Stimulation of the Alps
  21. Roads
  22. On the Enjoyment of Unpleasant Places
  23. Endnotes
  24. List of Illustrations
  25. Colophon
  26. Uncopyright

Landmarks

  1. Travel Essays
  2. Endnotes
  3. List of Illustrations