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By the Way: Travel Letters Written During Several Journeys Abroad

Chapter 46: Part II.
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A collection of travel letters recounting sojourns across England, Scotland, Ireland, France, Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy, Greece, and European and Asiatic Turkey. The writer blends shipboard anecdotes and personal impressions with practical observations about accommodations, local customs, and travel routines, offering vivid sketches of towns, monuments, and everyday scenes. The revised edition adds further journeys and provides a list of pensions, a bibliography, and numerous illustrations that complement the episodes. The tone is conversational and episodic, alternating personal reflection with useful advice for those contemplating a first trip across the Atlantic.

Part II.

The sea! the sea! the open sea!

The blue, the fresh, the ever-free!

Without a mark, without a bound,

It runneth the earth's wide regions round;

It plays with the clouds, it mocks the skies,

Or like a cradled creature lies.

I never was on the dull, tame shore,

But I loved the great sea more and more;

And backward flew to her billowy breast,

Like a bird that seeketh its mother's nest.

Barry Cornwall.