Mr.Pringle came out to Herne Hill, and was hospitably entertained as a brother Scot, as not only an editor, but a poet himself--not _only_ a poet, but a man of respectability and piety, who had been a missionary in South Africa.

In return for this hospitality he gave a good report of John's verses, and, after getting him to re-write two of the best passages in the last tour, carried them off for insertion in his forthcoming number.
He did more: he carried John to see the actual Samuel Rogers, whose verses had been adorned by the great Turner's vignettes.
After the pleurisy of April, 1835, his parents took him abroad again, and he made great preparations to use the opportunity to the utmost.

He would study geology in the field, and took Saussure in his trunk he would note meteorology: he made a cyanometer--a scale of blue to measure the depth of tone, the colour whether of Rhine-water or of Alpine skies.
He would sketch.

By now he had abandoned the desire to make MS.

albums, after seeing himself in print, and so chose rather to imitate the imitable, and to follow Prout, this time with careful outlines on the spot, than to idealize his notes in mimic Turnerism.