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will be sure of room and comfortable accommodation, even in
the smaller inns. I am aware that few of those who may be
inclined to profit by this recommendation will be able to do
so, as the time and manner of an excursion of this kind are
mostly regulated by circumstances which prevent an entire
freedom of choice. It will therefore be more pleasant to
observe, that, though the months of July and August are
liable to many objections, yet it often happens that the
weather, at this time, is not more wet and stormy than they,
who are really capable of enjoying the sublime forms of
nature in their utmost sublimity, would desire. For no
traveller, provided he be in good health, and with any
command of time, would have a just privilege to visit such
scenes, if he could grudge the price of a little confinement
among them, or interruption in his journey, for the sight or
sound of a storm coming on or clearing away. Insensible must
he be who would not congratulate himself upon the bold
bursts of sunshine, the descending vapours, wandering lights
and shadows, and the invigorated torrents and water-falls,
with which broken weather, in a mountainous region, is
accompanied. At such a time there is no cause to complain,
either at the monotony of midsummer colouring, or the
glaring atmosphere of long, cloudless, and hot days.
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