FIRST IMPRESSIONS
of
ENGLAND AND ITS PEOPLE
by
Hugh Miller
1851
430 pages.
This electronic edition prepared by Dr. David C. Bossard
from original documents in his personal library.
April, 2007.
Copyright © 2007 by Dr. David C. Bossard. All rights reserved.
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CHAPTER I. A Journey to England 25
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CHAPTER II Weather still miserably bad 42
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CHAPTER III. Quit York for Manchester 55
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CHAPTER IV. Quit Manchester for Wolverhampton. 72
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CHAPTER V. Dudley; significant Marks of the Mining Town 92
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CHAPTER VI. Stourbridge 119
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CHAPTER VII. Hagley Parish Church. 138
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CHAPTER VIII. Abbotsford and the Leasowes. 157
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CHAPTER IX. Detour 175
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CHAPTER X. Shenstone's Verses 193
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CHAPTER XI. Walk to the Clent Hills. 209
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CHAPTER XII. Geological Coloring of the Landscape. 229
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CHAPTER XIII. Birmingham; incessant Clamor of the Place. 252
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CHAPTER XIV. Drive from Birmingham to Stratford 276
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CHAPTER XV. Cowper 297
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CHAPTER XVI. Yardley Oak 315
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CHAPTER XVII. Cowper and the Geologists. 335
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CHAPTER XVIII. The Penny-a-mile Train and its passengers. 366
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CHAPTER XIX. Harrow-on-the-Hill. 389
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CHAPTER XX. Dissent a Mid-formation Organism in England. 407
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