Poems composed or suggested during a Tour, in the Summer of 1833

Having been prevented by the lateness of the season, in 1831, from visiting Staffa
and Iona, the author made these the principal objects of a short tour in the summer
of 1833, of which the following Series of Poems is a Memorial. The course
pursued was down the Cumberland river Derwent, and to Whitehaven; thence (by
the Isle of Man, where a few days were passed) up the Frith of Clyde to Greenock,
then to Oban, Staffa, Iona; and back towards England, by Loch Awe, Inverary,
Loch Goil-head, Greenock, and through parts of Renfrewshire, Ayrshire, and
Dumfriesshire, to Carlisle, and thence up the river Eden, and homewards by
Ullswater.