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MR. JENKINSON has succeeded in accomplishing what he has aimed at; he has written a really “useful, entertaining, and instructive” guide-book to the district indicated in the title. This district, of no very great extent, abounds in varied interest, and to those who desire to visit it we could recommend no more valuable companion than Mr. Jenkinson's “Practical Guide.” He has evidently taken pains to make himself personally well acquainted with the localities he describes, and has diligently collected all the historical and other associations which add interest to the various points to be visited. To antiquaries, his “Walk along the Roman Wall from Coast to Coast” will be specially interesting, and with this book in one's hand we could imagine no more interesting and instructive walk for a summer holiday. The difference between the larger and smaller Guide is, that the former;contains an additional eighty pages on the Local Names and the Natural History—Geology, Mineralogy, Botany, Entomology, and Ornithology—of the district, which adds to its value from a scientific point of view. Both books contain an excellent map of the county from coast to coast, embracing a distance of several miles on each side of the Roman Wall. We commend the Guide as the best to be had for the district to which it refers.
Practical Guide to Carlisle, Gilsland, Roman Wall, and Neighbourhood.
Henry Irwin
Jenkinson
By. Also, Smaller Practical Guide. By same author. (London: Edward Stanford, 1875).
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[Book Reviews]. Nature 12, 211 (1875). https://doi.org/10.1038/012211d0
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