The Old World And the New : Or, a Journal of Reflections And Observations Made On a Tour in Europe
The Old World And the New : Or, a Journal of Reflections And Observations Made On a Tour in Europe
Dewey Orville
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For in- stance, I heard a very self-sufficient Scotchman here this evening, boasting of Walter Scott as his countryman, and yet very soon saying, that the scene of one of his novels could not be in Derby- i2 d by Google n 103 THE OLD WQRLD AND THE NEl^. shire, because none of them was laid in EDgland.*" I have heard very plain, hard-working people in America, in the conversation of the barroom, quote Locke and Stewart There are not so many boc^s here — in the taverns, in the farmhouses, in the ...houses of the common people, on the shelves everywhere — as there are among us. Have I spoken of women, working in the fields f Not in Ireland, nor in Wales only, but in Scotland and in England, this is constantly seen: not in har- vest only — but they hoe, and dig, and delve, in all fields and at all seasons — sometimes four, five, ten — nay, twenty I have seen in a field. It must tend to give them a rough and coarse character; to their persons it certainly does. While at Bakewell, I visited Chatsworth, the seat of the Duke of Devonshire, and Haddosi Hall, an ancient and deserted castle on the estates of the Duke of Rutland ; one, five Iniles, and the other two miles distant Chatswordi is an immense castle, of the Ionic order, the oldest part built round a hollow square — the new part, a continuation, one story lower, of •the rear block or portion, of the pile ; and so ex- tensive, that, when finished, there is to be a suite of rooms, through the whole of which the eye will * Only an instance, I allow.
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