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upon each; and oftentimes his thoughts will have
girdled the whole earth while his footsteps have scarcely
measured half a mile.
Some apology may be required for the egotism that
pervades the whole of this hook, preface included. I
might have avoided the frequent use of the personal
pronoun, by adopting the usual devices; and I did
make the attempt, but found it so utterly inconsistent
with homely ways, hobnailed boots, plain facts, muddy
trousers, and my habit of mind, that I resolved to stick
to honest English, and take the consequences.
If any apology be needed for writing a book at
all, mine is simply this: that no account of such a
pedestrian tour in Norway has yet been published, that
I travelled over much ground hitherto unexplored by
tourists, and that any addition to our knowledge of
Norway is, or ought to be, deeply interesting to all
Englishmen.
W. MATTIEU WILLIAMS.
Birmingham and Midland Institute,
August, 1859.
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