The scenery on the Meuse pleases me more, upon the whole, than 
      that of the Rhine, though the river itself is much inferior in 
      grandeur. The rocks both in form and colour, especially between 
      Namur and Liege, surpass any upon the Rhine, though they are in 
      several places disfigured by quarries, whence stones were taken 
      for the new fortifications. This is much to be regretted, for they 
      are useless, and the scars will remain perhaps for thousands of 
      years. A like injury to a still greater degree has been inflicted, 
      in my memory, upon the beautiful rocks of Clifton on the banks of 
      the Avon. There is probably in existence a very long letter of 
      mine to Sir Uvedale Price, in which was given a description of the 
      landscapes on the Mense as compared with those on the Rhine.
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        Details in the spirit of these sonnets are given both in Mrs. 
      Wordsworth's Journals and my Sister's, and the re-perusal of them 
      has strengthened a wish long entertained that somebody would put 
      together, as in one work, the notices contained in them, omitting 
      particulars that were written down merely to aid our memory, and 
      bringing the whole into as small a compass as is consistent with 
      the general interests belonging to the scenes, circumstances, and 
      objects touched on by each writer.