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Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth, Vol. 1 (of 2)
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Dorothy Wordsworth
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A
little
further
on,
came
more
into
company
with
the
river;
sometimes
we
were
close
to
it,
sometimes
above
it,
but
always
at
no
great
distance;
and
now
the
vale
became
more
interesting
and
amusing.
It
is
very
populous,
with
villages,
hamlets,
single
cottages,
or
farm-houses
embosomed
in
orchards,
and
scattered
over
with
gentlemen's
houses,
some
of
them
very
ugly,
tall
and
obtrusive,
others
neat
and
comfortable.
We
seemed
now
to
have
got
into
a
country
where
poverty
and
riches
were
shaking
hands
together;
pears
and
apples,
of
which
the
crop
was
abundant,
hung
over
the
road,
often
growing
in
orchards
unfenced;
or
there
might
be
bunches
of
broom
along
the
road-side
in
an
interrupted
line,
that
looked
like
a
hedge
till
we
came
to
it
and
saw
the
gaps.
Bordering
on
these
fruitful
orchards
perhaps
would
be
a
patch,
its
chief
produce
being
gorse
or
broom.
There
was
nothing
like
a
moor
or
common
anywhere;
but
small
plots
of
uncultivated
ground
were
left
high
and
low,
among
the
potatoes,
corn,
cabbages,
which
grew
intermingled,
now
among
trees,
now
bare.
The
Trough
of
the
Clyde
is,
indeed,
a
singular
and
very
interesting
region;
it
is
somewhat
like
the
upper
part
of
the
vale
of
Nith,
but
above
the
Nith
is
much
less
cultivated
ground--without
hedgerows
or
orchards,
or
anything
that
looks
like
a
rich
country.
We
met
crowds
of
people
coming
from
the
kirk;
the
lasses
were
gaily
dressed,
often
in
white
gowns,
coloured
satin
bonnets,
and
coloured
silk
handkerchiefs,
and
generally
with
their
shoes
and
stockings
in
a
bundle
hung
on
their
arm.
Before
we
left
the
river
the
vale
became
much
less
interesting,
resembling
a
poor
English
country,
the
fields
being
large,
and
unluxuriant
hedges.
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