presented to the public, in the confident belief that
the interest developed in its subject will excuse any shortcomings that
may be found in its pages.

PHILADELPHIA, July, 1882.

CONTENTS.

I.

_LIVERPOOL, WESTWARD TO THE WELSH COAST._
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Liverpool--Birkenhead--Knowsley Hall--Chester--Cheshire--Eaton
Hall--Hawarden Castle--Bidston--Congleton--Beeston Castle--The river
Dee--Llangollen--Valle-Crucis Abbey--Dinas Bran--Wynnstay--Pont
Cysylltau--Chirk Castle--Bangor-ys-Coed--Holt--Wrexham--The Sands o'
Dee--North Wales--Flint Castle--Rhuddlan Castle--Mold--Denbigh--St.
Asaph--Holywell--Powys Castle--The Menai Strait--Anglesea--Beaumaris
Castle--Bangor--Penrhyn Castle--Plas Newydd--Caernarvon
Castle--Ancient Segontium--Conway Castle--Bettws-y-Coed--Mount
Snowdon--Port Madoc--Coast of Merioneth--Barmouth--St. Patrick's
Causeway--Mawddach Vale--Cader Idris--Dolgelly--Bala
Lake--Aberystwith--Harlech Castle--Holyhead 17

II.

_LIVERPOOL, NORTHWARD TO THE SCOTTISH BORDER._

Lancashire--Warrington--Manchester--Furness Abbey--The
Ribble--Stonyhurst--Lancaster Castle--Isle of
Man--Castletown--Rusben Castle--Peele Castle--The Lake
Country--Windermere--Lodore Fall--Derwentwater--Keswick--Greta
Hall--Southey, Wordsworth, and Coleridge--Skiddaw---The Border
Castles--Kendal Castle--Brougham Hall--The Solway--Carlisle
Castle--Scaleby Castle--Naworth--Lord William Howard. 51

III.

_LIVERPOOL, THROUGH THE MIDLAND COUNTIES, TO LONDON._

The Peak of Derbyshire--Castleton--Bess of Hardwicke--Hardwicke
Hall--Bolsover Castle--The Wye and the
Derwent--Buxton--Bakewell--Haddon Hall--The King of the
Peak--Dorothy Vernon--Rowsley--The Peacock Inn--Chatsworth--The
Victoria Regia--Matlock--Dovedale--Beauchief Abbey--Stafford
Castle--Trentham Hall--Tamworth--Tutbury Castle--Chartley
Castle--Alton Towers--Shrewsbury Castle--Bridgenorth--Wenlock
Abbey--Ludlow Castle--The Feathers Inn--Lichfield Cathedral--Dr.
Samuel Johnson--Coventry--Lady Godiva and Peeping Tom--Belvoir
Castle--Charnwood Forest--Groby and Bradgate--Elizabeth Widvile and
Lady Jane Grey--Ulverscroft Priory--Grace Dien Abbey--Ashby de la
Zouche--Langley Priory--Leicester Abbey and Castle--Bosworth
Field--Edgehill--Nas