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 his emotions as he gazed upon a mountain
 flushed with dawn, or the gray stretch of
 the breathing sea, or into the faces of men
 so unhappy as to have been born in other
 countries than his own. To this he added
 --scrupulous about an inch, and credit-
 ing with careful courtesy his information
 to the' Verger the height of the nave
 of a cathedral, or the genealogy of a
 Royal House, or any of those rumors
 which commend themselves under the
 name of History. The Journal and a
 mended pen gave ample opportunity for
graceful sentences, for moral reflections,
for intense self-consciousness, called by
some the "Love of Approbation; "- for
was not each carefully written word to be
read by the tender eyes of those whom the
Traveler had left at home ?
 We have seen such Diaries, all of us,
although very probably the writers jour-