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Winnington, near Northwich, Cheshire, between the years 1865 and 1868. It was once a nobleman’s house, part of his park still surrounding it; seventeen miles beyond Crewe, on the north Edinburgh road; and I used to stay there when I had lectures to give at Liverpool, Rochdale, Glasgow, Bradford, or the like miserable and abysmal localities, on the subjects of Heaven, Earth, the Bottomless Pit, and other places up and down the midst or outside of the universe, abroad and at home, better known to me than to the working audiences who came to give me contemptuous audit.

Chapter x. (“St. Martin’s Bridge”) would have given further notes, it seems, on Sallenches and the Bridge at St. Martin, in addition to those in Præterita, vol. ii. ch. xi. The following scrap was to have introduced the chapter:-

All that is wonderful, and for people who love pine forest and ice, beautiful, in Chamouni has rivalship or counterpart in other pastoral valleys of the high Alps. In Grindelwald, or at Rosenlaui, or in Lauterbrunnen or at Macugnaga, one may receive virtually the same kinds of impressions, often in more exciting variety. But there is nothing else in Europe like the valley of Sallenches; and the little Hotel du Mont Blanc at the bridge of St. Martin was in old days the hermitage whence one might see whatever was mightiest in Alpine form, and rightly spell whatever legends were most precious on tablet of rock or scroll of cloud.

At no other point of the Alps does the region of the vine reach so near the central snow; and where in other places it approaches the higher chain nearest, the last vines climb irregularly among their glowing islets of crag, and there is no agricultural district of transition between them and the lower pasturages. But at Sallenches, the vines wander among the lower villages and trellis their gardens, while, above, wide extents of orchard and arable separate the grape-district from the rock bases of the higher mountains. Nor are these less singularly varied than the disposition of their woods and fields.

For chapter xi. (“St. Martin’s Chapel”) some historical extracts were put into type-from Nicolas Battely’s Cantuaria Sacra and other sources-with regard to St. Martin’s Chapel at Canterbury (compare Vol. XXXIII. pp. 437, 438).

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