Excerpt from Praeterita, Vol. 2: Outlines of Scenes and Thoughts Perhaps Worthy of Memory, in My Past Life Vol. Ii.that is not so, even in modern days; having long ago known that, in ancient ones, the clouds and mountains which have been life to me, were mere incon venience and horror to most of mankind. I related, in the first volume, page I 53, some small part of my pleasures under St. Vincent's rock at Clifton, and the beginning of quartz - study there with the now No. 51 of the Brantwood series. Compare with these childish sentiments, those of the maturely judging John Evelyn, at the same place, 3oth June, 1654. 'the city' (bristol) 'wholly mercantile. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.