The sage of Skinner Street thought that now was a convenient season.
Accordingly he left London, and travelled by coach to Lynmouth, where he found that the Shelleys had flitted a few days previously without giving any notice.

This fruitless journey of the poet's Mentor is humorously described by Hogg, as well as one undertaken by himself in the following year to Dublin with a similar result.

The Shelleys were now established at Tan-yr-allt, near Tremadoc, in North Wales, on an estate belonging to Mr.W.A.Madocks, M.P.for Boston.

This gentleman had reclaimed a considerable extent of marshy ground from the sea, and protected it with an embankment.

Shelley, whose interest in the poor people around him was always keen and practical, lost no time in making their acquaintance at Tremadoc.