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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Excellent copy of this book. Plates and pages are bright. Please use photographs to ascertain condition.

About the book >.>.> The present volume consists of journals written with the same intent and plan as those which preceded them. They describe nearly word for word as they were written my impressions of the nature of the landscape in those portions of Corsica through which I travelled. It is possible that the literary part of this book may not prove of equal interest with that of the publica- tions above named; not indeed from any want of merit in the subject but because I have now no longer the help of friends who then kindly assisted me by their criticisms especially the late Robert A. Hornby Esq. and Richard Ford Esq. But the aim of all these journals should be looked on as the same simply to be aids to the knowledge of scenery which I have visited and delineated. I passed last winter at Cannes intending to return early in the spring to Palestine for the purpose of completing drawings and journals for a work already partly advanced; but circumstances having prevented me from carry- ing out this plan I decided on going to Corsica rather perhaps on account of its being a place near at hand and easily reached than from any distinct impression as to the nature of the country or from any particular interest in its history inhabitants or scenery. (SP)