journey. This was Sicily; so straight away I went there at the devil's
own rate, and never stopped any where by the way; changed horses at Rome
and all those places, and landed in safety in ---- I forget exactly how
long from the time of starting, but I have got it down to an odd minute.
As for the places I left behind, I saw them all on my way back, except
the Rhine, and I _steamed_ down that in the nighttime.'

"'I have travelled a good deal by night,' said Theobald. 'With a
_dormeuse_ and travelling lamp I think it is pleasant, and a good plan
of getting on.'

"'And you can honestly say, I suppose,' said Denbigh, 'that you have
slept successfully through as much fine country as any man living?'

"'Oh, I did see the country--that is, all that was worth seeing. My
courier knew all about that, and used to stop and wake me whenever we
came to any thing remarkable. Gad! I have reason to remember it, too,
for I caught an infernal bad cold one night when I turned out by
lamp-light to look at a waterfall. I never looked at another.'"

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SCRIPTURAL ANTIQUITIES.


We resume our quotations from this treasurable little volume already
noticed in No. 551, of _The Mirror_. Taken altogether, it is an
exhaustless mine of research upon subjects which have awakened curiosity
from childhood to old age--from the little wonder-struck learner on the