I found matter of interest everywhere, and could have gone on doing so, as it seemed to me in those days, for ever.
The part of France I visited is not much betravelled by Englishmen, and the general idea is that it is not an interesting section of the country.

I thought, and still think, otherwise.

My notion is, that if a line were drawn through France from Calais to the centre of the Pyrenean chain, by far the greater part of the prettiest country and most interesting populations, as well as places, would be found to the westward of it.

I do not think that my bill of fare excited any great interest in the reading world.

But I suppose that I contrived to interest a portion of it; for the book was fairly successful.
I wrote a book in many respects of the same kind many years subsequently, giving an account of a journey through certain little-visited districts of central Italy, under the title of a _Lenten Journey_.