He that visits a place new to him for some special object rightly informs himself of all that the book can tell him.

The knowledge may be useful; pleasure is with him a secondary object.

But if pleasure be the main object, it will only be experienced in the highest degree by him who goes without book and discovers what old Fuller called the "observables" for himself.

There will be no mental pictures previously formed; consequently what is found will not disappoint.

When the mind has been permitted to dwell beforehand on any scene, then, however beautiful or grand it may be, the element of surprise is wanting and admiration is weak.