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drawing. “The pale spaces,” says Mr. Collingwood, “are pink and yellow and green, and the Lake of Geneva, which looks rather blotchy in the print, is more pleasant in ultramarine. This is one of the set of geological maps made to illustrate the course of the usual tour through France and the Alps, perhaps, to judge by the handwriting, for the journey of 1835, when he made special preparations to study geology. He could hardly carry a bulky sheet or atlas, and so extracted just what he required, in a series of neat little pages, put together into a home-made case, ready for use at any moment.... Ruskin on a journey was never bored, unless he was ill; he looked out of the window and poked you up: ‘Now, put away that book; we are just coming to the chalk’; or ‘Are you looking out for the great twist in the limestone?’” (ibid., pp. 111-112).

The two facsimiles of the MS. of Præterita have been already mentioned (p. lvii.).

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