For the present it is enough to remember that his physical condition was such as to justify his own expectation of death at no distant time.

(See Letter to Godwin in Shelley's Memorials, page 78.) Fond as ever of wandering, Shelley set out in the early summer for a tour with Mary.

They visited Devonshire and Clifton, and then settled in a house on Bishopsgate Heath, near Windsor Forest.

The summer was further broken by a water excursion up the Thames to its source, in the company of Mr.Peacock and Charles Clairmont.

Peacock traces the poet's taste for boating, which afterwards became a passion with him, to this excursion.