A Morning's Walk From London to Kew Author:Richard Phillips General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1817 Original Publisher: printed by J. Adlard, ... sold by John Souter, ... and by all booksellers Description: "The substance of the following pages appeared in various numbers of the Monthly magazine, between the years 1813 and 1816." - p.xvi. Subjects: London (England) Notes... more »: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: These observations may perhaps serve as a sufficieat apology for the narrative which follows: -- existing notions, the love of the sublime, and the predilections above described, render it necessary for a home tourist to present himself before the public with modesty. The readers of voyages round the whole world, and of travels into unexplored regions of Africa and America, will scarcely be persuaded to tolerate ft narrative of an excursion which began at nine in the morning and ended at six in the afternoon of the same day! Yet such, -truly, we the Trceods which afford the materials of the present narrative; they were excited by a 'fine morning in the latter days of April, and their scene was the high-road lying between Lonpon and Kew, on th banks of the Thames. "' With no guide besides a mar of the country round the metropolis, and no settled purpose beyond what the weather might govenv f strolled towards 'St. James's Park.: In'prdceedtng betwee'rilihe walls from Spring Gardens, I found thelame and the blind taking their periodical stations on each side of the passage. -- I paused a few minutes to see them approach one after another as to a regular calling; or as players to take their stations and enact their settled partii in this drama. One, a fellow, who had a withered leg, approached his pbst with a cheerful air; but he had no soone...« less