[Illustration: _Mooney, Buffalo._ ] [Illustration: COUNTRY RAMBLES OR THE JOURNAL OF AN ENGLISH NATURALIST. WITH NOTES BY THE AUTHOR OF RURAL HOURS. _BUFFALO PHINNEY & C^o._] COUNTRY RAMBLES IN ENGLAND; OR JOURNAL OF A NATURALIST; WITH NOTES AND ADDITIONS, BY THE AUTHOR OF “RURAL HOURS.” ——“Plants, trees, and stones, we note, Birds, insects, beasts, and many rural things.” BUFFALO: PUBLISHED BY PHINNEY & CO. 1853. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1852, by PHINNEY & CO. In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court for the Northern District of New York. Go forth, my little bark, again, and risk Once more thy fragile form upon the world’s Unsteady surge. Rude gales and currents may Be found to meet thee on thy way, and check Thy progress to a ready mart: yet steer, If haply thou canst, thy course—light is Thy freight, nor rare; and few I deem’d would prize Such merchandise as thine, nor willing aid Thee foundering in the wave; but thou hast sail’d In tranquil seas—warm, sunny gleams have cheer’d Thee on; and friends—kind friends!—were seen, Who slighted not thy ware, all rustic as It was. Yet bear thee steady on thy course; And chance some wandering trafficker may come To seek a sample of thy stores, and find The lading to its invoice true. PREFACE.