| Description | In between each entry is a table listing places visited, miles travelled and inns frequented and mentions the last public house in England at Land's End.
Records a journey to and from South Cave to the south-west of England.
Description of countryside near Sheffield, Buxton, Bakewell, Chatsworth. Mentions places visited including Richard Arkwright's cotton mills, Hardwick, Derby's china manufacturing industry, silk mills and the pictures of [Wright], Heddleston House, Ashbourne, Dovedale, Ashbourne and Cheadle and Mr Gilbert's Cotton Hall.
Description briefly mentions passing through, Ashbourne, Uttoxeter, Newcastle under Lyme, Etruria the potteries of Wedgewood, Lichfield cathedral, Birmingham, Leasowes, Mr Boulton's house at Soho the ruins of Dr Priestly's house.
Visits places near Worcester, the china manufactory and cathedral, road between Worcester and Tewkesbury is bad and between Tewkesbury and Cheltenham is unpassable, Gloucester and its gaol [jail], Newport to Bristol Hotwells, views of South Wales.
River Severn, the beautiful countryside around Bristol Hotwells, turnpikes, exceeds the countryside around Bath, Chepstow, Piercefield Park, Tintern Abbey, River Wye.
Crossing the River Severn, the village of Cheddar (famous for its cheese), Bridgewater, Tiverton, Crediton.
General descriptions of Devon and its narrow lanes, Crediton to Oakhampton, Cornwall, 'a more barren and open country', Launceston, River Tamar, journey from Launceston to Bodmin.
Brief description of Bodmin 'an unpleasant town', and Truro 'the best town', and mentions piles of tin in the streets, travels from Truro to Redruth and the many mines surrounding, people selling ore and other curiosities, also a ruin of a Castle Carn Brea, mentions Marazion.
Briefly mentions St Michael's Mount, Penzance and its temperate climate and that myrtles and other tender plants grow outside, the temperate climate air which attracts invalids, Penzance's tin mine which is under the sea which the miners access through a lift shaft, records seeing the Isles of Scilly, road from Penzance is not good.
Briefly describes the journey out of Penzance, passing a druid's temple, Cornwall's many mines and mentions coal is imported from Wales and the limestone from Devonshire (Plymouth). Fish is in great quantity (especially John Dory and Red Mullet), pilchard, mackerel are mainly eaten by the lower classes, fine plantations of Pineastors planted by Sir John St Aubyn, a lead mine near Helston, journey from Falmouth to Truro passing the Calenick Smelting House.
Mentions Lostwithiel and Restormel Castle, Liskeard to Callington to Tavistock, crossing the River Tamar, a copper mine, excursions to St Germans and up the River Tamar, the dockyard's arsenal at Plymouth, took a road to Ashburton and then took a narrow road to Teignmouth, Dawlish and Powderham Castle, 'the finest in Devonshire' but with a bad steep road.
Describes Exeter as a fine city and travels to Exmouth along the seaside to Sidmouth and Lyme Regis, Bridport, Dorchester (countryside not so pleasant), Salisbury cathedral (mentions the work done by James Wyatt), Wilton and Stonehenge worth visiting. Road from Andover to Speenhamland 'very woody and very fine', Soley. Works taking place at Oxford under the direction of James Wyat, Woodstock and Blenheim, Stratford on Avon, Warwick castle, Coventry 'a very bad dirty town'.
The journey ends at South Cave. |