Considerable interest had naturally been taken locally in our long walk,
for we had been absent from our customary haunts for seventy-five days,
having travelled by land and sea--apart from the actual walk from John
o' Groat's to Land's End--a distance nearly a thousand miles. Everybody
wanted to be told all about it, so I was compelled to give the
information in the form of lectures, which were repeated in the course
of many years in different parts of the country where aid for
philanthropic purposes was required. The title of the lecture I gave in
the Cobden Hall at Hull on January 25th, 1883, was "My journey from John
o' Groat's to Land's End, or 1,372 miles on foot," and the syllabus on
that occasion was a curiosity, as it was worded as follows:
John O' Groat's House and how we got there--Flying visit to Orkney
and Shetland--Crossing Pentland Firth in a sloop--Who was John o'
Groat?--What kind of a house did he live in?--A long sermon--The
great castles--Up a lighthouse--The Maiden's Paps--Lost on the
moors--Pictish towers--Eating Highland porridge--The Scotch lassie
and the English--A Sunday at Inverness--Loch Ness--The tale of the
heads--Taken for shepherds--Fort William--Up Ben Nevis--The Devil's
Staircase--Glencoe--A night in Glen-Orchy--Sunday at
Dalmally--Military road--The Cobbler and his Wife--Inverary and the
Duke of Argyle--Loch Lomond--Stirling Castle--Wallace's Monument--A
bodyless church--Battle of Bannockburn-Linlithgow Palace--A Sunday in
Edinburgh, and what I saw there--Roslyn Castle--Muckle-mouthed
Meg--Abbotsford, the residence of Sir Walter Scott--Melrose Abbey--A
would-not-be fellow-traveller--All night under the
stairs--Lilliesleaf--Hawick--A stocking-maker's
revenge--Langholm--Taken for beggars--In a distillery--A midnight
adventure in the Border Land--A night at a coal-pit--Crossing the
boundary--A cheer for old England--Longtown and its parish
clerk--Hearing the bishop--Will you be married?--Our visit to
Gretna-Green--Ramble through the Lake District--Sunday at
Keswick--Furness Abbey--A week in the Big County--Stump Cross
Cavern--Brimham rocks--Malham Cove--Fountains Abbey--The Devil's
Arrows--Taken for highwaymen--Tessellated pavements--York
Minster--Robin Hood and Little John--A Sunday at Castleton--Peveril
of the Peak--The cave illuminated--My sore foot and the present of
stones--March through Derbyshire--Lichfield Cathedral--John
Wiclif--High Cross--A peep at Peeping Tom at
Coventry--Leamington--Warwick Castle--Beauchamp chapel--In
Shakespeare's House at Stratford-on-Avon--Inhospitable Kineton--All
night in the cold--Banbury Cross--A Sunday at Oxford--March across
Salisbury Plain--Stonehenge--Salisbury Cathedral--Where they make
carpets--Exeter Cathedral--Bridport--Honiton--Dawlish--A Sunday at
Torquay--Devonshire lanes--Totnes--Dartmouth--Plymouth and the Big
Bridge--Our adventure with the 42nd Highlanders--Tramp across
Dartmoor--Lost in the dark--Liskeard--Truro--Tramp through the land
of the saints--St.
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