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Collected Works contains Mill’s diaries of his walking tours 1827-32, a diary from 1854 and other material from the early 1820s. PLL v4 (generated January 6, 2009) 2 http://oll.libertyfund.org/title/261 Online Library of Liberty: The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Volume XXVII - Journals and Debating Speeches Part II About Liberty Fund: Liberty Fund, Inc. is a private, educational foundation established to encourage the study of the ideal of a society of free and responsible individuals. Copyright Information: The online edition of the Collected Works is published under licence from the copyright holder, The University of Toronto Press. ©2006 The University of Toronto Press. All rights reserved. No part of this material may be reproduced in any form or medium without the permission of The University of Toronto Press. Fair Use Statement: This material is put online to further the educational goals of Liberty Fund, Inc. Unless otherwise stated in the Copyright Information section above, this material may be used freely for educational and academic purposes. It may not be used in any way for profit. PLL v4 (generated January 6, 2009) 3 http://oll.libertyfund.org/title/261 Online Library of Liberty: The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Volume XXVII - Journals and Debating Speeches Part II Table Of Contents Walking Tours 1827-32 29.: Walking Tour of Sussex 20-30 July, 1827 30.: Walking Tour of Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, and Surrey 3-15 July, 1828 31.: Walking Tour of Yorkshire and the Lake District July-august 1831 32.: Walking Tour of Hampshire, West Sussex, and the Isle of Wight 19 July-6 August, 1832 33.: Walking Tour of Cornwall 3-9 October, 1832 Diary 1854 34.: Diary 8 January-15 April, 1854 Appendices Appendix A: the Manuscripts Appendix B: Journal and Notebook: Ancillary Materials (1820-21) I. Plan of a Dialogue On Government II.: “lieues De Poste” III.: Translation of Cicero IV.: Letter From Lady Bentham to James Mill V.: Letters From Richard Doane Appendix C: Textual Emendations Appendix D: Index of Persons and Works Cited, With Variants and Notes The Collected Edition of the Works of John Stuart Mill has been planned and is being directed by an editorial committee appointed from the Faculty of Arts and Science of the University of Toronto, and from the University of Toronto Press. The primary aim of the edition is to present fully collated texts of those works which exist in a number of versions, both printed and manuscript, and to provide accurate texts of works previously unpublished or which have become relatively inaccessible. Editorial Committee john m. robson,General Editor harald bohne, j.c. cairns, j.b. conacher, d.p. dryer, marion filipiuk, francess halpenny, samuel hollander, r.f. mcrae, ian montagnes, f.e.l. priestley, ann p. robson, f.e. sparshott PLL v4 (generated January 6, 2009) 4 http://oll.libertyfund.org/title/261 Online Library of Liberty: The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Volume XXVII - Journals and Debating Speeches Part II [Back to Table of Contents] WALKING TOURS 1827-32 PLL v4 (generated January 6, 2009) 5 http://oll.libertyfund.org/title/261 Online Library of Liberty: The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Volume XXVII - Journals and Debating Speeches Part II [Back to Table of Contents] 29. Walking Tour Of Sussex 20-30 JULY, 1827 MS, St. Andrews University Library, MS 1499. Mill’s companions on this trip were George John Graham (1801-88) and Horace Grant (1800-59), both close associates of his in the late 1820s, collaborating in his study and debating groups, and accompanying him on walks through London as well as in the countryside. Grant was also a colleague of Mill’s in the Examiner’s Office of the East India Company, 1826-45. As not published in Mill’s lifetime, not listed in his bibliography. 20th July 1827 This morning I commenced a short tour of the Sussex coast in company with Graham and Grant. I was taken up at Leatherhead by a Chichester coach which proceeded through Bookham, Effingham, East Horsley, Clandon and Merrow. The road skirts the foot of the Ranmer hills, of which however the ascent on the north is so gradual that little is visible of their peculiarities except an occasional chalk pit. To the right, although we had the advantage of a clear horizon and a blue sky chequered with flying white clouds, by far the best weather for surveying the country, we could perceive nothing remarkable for the first eight miles except a black ridge of high land which must lie near Cobham,1 but of which, although I have often observed it from Ranmer common, I do not know the name. N.B. I have since discovered that it does lie just beyond Cobham—and is called St. George’s Hill.2 Towards Guildford however the distant country to the right becomes less monotonous, and a long ridge of high hills presents itself in front, which must extend from Farnham to Bagshot or beyond. After passing through the cheerful old town of Guildford, and crossing the Wey, we turned to the left, and entered into the valley which extends from that place to Godalming. We left the vale of Albury, and the beautiful hills which almost close the mouth of it, to the westward, and pursued our course between a low rather tame range of hills on the right, and a series of higher and more abrupt insulated hills covered with oak copse on the side next us, and prettily feathered at the top. Through this country we proceeded to Godalming, an old and very ill paved town, much less clean and well built than Guildford, but apparently of the same date, that is to say, the best houses built about the reign of Charles II, the others about that of Queen Elizabeth.3 The place, I believe, is chiefly remarkable for its pleasant situation, and its bread, which we were told is the best in England: but this will not be easily credited by any person who has lived at Dorking. After Godalming the country rises for a time, and the road passes over some high sandy ground, leaving to the left the last of the range of sand hills which commence with Boars hill and end at Godalming. In ascending the sand hill a fine view opens behind of the ridge called the Hog’s back, which extends from Guildford to Farnham. In gradually descending into the plain of Sussex, we passed to the right, the high and peculiarly shaped elevation of Hindhead, PLL v4 (generated January 6, 2009) 6 http://oll.libertyfund.org/title/261 Online Library of Liberty: The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Volume XXVII - Journals and Debating Speeches Part II which seems composed of several lofty eminences, some of them conical, united together by short ridges, and a little farther we passed the still higher eminence called Blackdown hill, which rises gradually from the foot of Hindhead, passes into a long ridge and ends abruptly towards the south like Leith hill. The vegetation and general cast of these hills, which are all of sand, very much resembles in appearance the sand hills near Dorking. The smaller occasional elevations and diversified appearance of the well wooded country through which we were passing, added to the occasional glimpses which we caught of Leith hill and the whole of that high range of country, rendered this drive one of the most agreeable which I ever experienced. After Blackdown hill there is an almost continued series of sand hills to the right, not connected into a ridge, but, like the Leith hill range, entirely separate. We skirted Lord Egremont’s park4 for about two miles, which seemed as far as we could observe, to have nothing remarkable about it except its size, and arrived at Petworth, a very old ill built town, with narrow and winding streets, like many other old towns upon a hill.