The Leofric missal as used in the Cathedral of Exeter during the episcopate of its first bishop, A.D. 1050-1072. Together with some account of the Red ... other early manuscript service books of the

It is rutted with wheels and trodden down by the feet of many adventurers. Here and there there are scattered white objects which glisten in the sun, and stand out against the dull deposit of alkali. Approach, and examine them! They are bones: some large and coarse, others smaller and more delicate. The former have belonged to oxen, and the latter to men. For fifteen hundred miles one may trace this ghastly caravan route by these scattered remains of those who had fallen by the wayside. Looking down on this very scene, there stood upon the fourth of May, eighteen hundred and forty-seven, a solitary traveller (4 мая 1847 года там стоял, смотря на эту самую сцену, одинокий путешественник). His appearance was such that he might have been the very genius or demon of the region (выглядел он так: «его внешность была такой», что мог бы олицетворять собой самый дух или демон: «мог бы быть воплощенным духом или демоном» этой местности). An observer would have found it difficult to say whether he was nearer to forty or to sixty (наблюдатель затруднился бы определить: «нашел бы трудным сказать», был ли возраст этого путешественника: «был ли он» ближе к сорока или к шестидесяти годам) ...»