Early rising a mistake--Fine weather and misty mornings--Bound for Grays, near Tilbury--To Chelmsford--Great Baddow and Clare College, Cambridge--Galleywood Common--A wide prospect--Billericay--Origin of name an enigma--Arthur Young on the country and roads--Same roads to-day--Effect of heavy motors--A plea for overhanging trees--Horndon on the Hill--Langdon Hill a fine view--Arthur Young rhapsodizes--Defoe at Chadwell--Little Thurrock--Hangman's Wood or Hairyman's Wood?--If the latter, possible connection with Peter the Wild Man--His story--Defoe's interest in him--The "Dene-holes"--An antiquary who gave no help--Enigmas not solved by designatory titles--The shafts--The groups of chambers--Dimensions--Uniformity of shape--Groups all separate--Absence of Orientation--Known to Camden--Neglected till 1884 and 1887, then again--No suggestive remains found--Cannot be chalk wells--Hardly flint mines as at Brandon--Legend of "King Cunobelin's Gold Mines"--Conceivably granaries--Not very likely--Why not refuges from the Danes, small at first and enlarged later?--Harmless speculation at any rate--Suggestion for return to Colchester--To Clacton by motor-boat, thence by train--Take glance at Burnham on Crouch--Quaint and hospitable. Now doubts arise, and I hover between two opinions. Dinner and rest are supposed to have intervened before we carry on our little tour or series of tours. That is a small thing to demand. A playwright thinks nothing of an interval of years between two acts. The difficulty is that our imaginary tour of to-day is one of fully one hundred miles, and is much more likely to stretch out into one hundred and twenty, for few motorists will take the advice, honestly given, to retrace their wheelmarks for some fifty miles. That, really, is not half so bad as it sounds, for the eye of the most practised motorist does not observe so quickly while passing in one direction that nothing remains to be noticed about the same objects when passed from another direction. Still there are at least a hundred miles to go, some of them over familiar roads about which no further observations are necessary, to see a sight of mysterious interest which has, to all appearances, not obtained a tenth of the notice it richly deserves. Shall we, then, rise early in the morning, so that we may have leisure to proceed quietly and to enjoy "the clear morning air"? The suggestion is declined without thanks by the wise woman or man. The pleasures of early-rising and of the cool morning air are a fond delusion of the ancients; just as the idea that it is virtuous to get up early belongs to a state of opinion in which actions were believed to be virtuous if they were decidedly unpleasant. Now that this state of opinion has vanished the one consolation of rising early has disappeared also. Early-rising, especially in hotels,