The main object for Keats and Brown was to tour Scotland, so not much time was spent in the Lake District. Within a week they had walked through the area and were nearing Scotland. On July 1st they were at Carlisle. "I fear our continued moving from place to place, will prevent our becoming learned in village affairs; we are mere creatures of Rivers, Lakes, and Mountains. ... We have now walked 114 miles, and are merely a little tired in the thighs and a little blistered; We shall ride 38 miles to Dumfries ..."28 By July 14th they were at Glasgow. On the 18th, at Inverary.

"We have come over heath and rock and river and bog to what in England would be called a horrid place -- yet it belongs to a Shepherd pretty well off perhaps. The family speak not a word but gaelic and we have not yet seen their faces for the smoke which after visiting every cranny, (not excepting my eyes very much incommoded for writing), finds its way out at the door. I am more comfortable than I could have imagined in such a place, and so is Brown. The people are all very kind."29