The Osgood guide contains travel hints such as:

        "It is remarkable that pedestrianism has never been popular in this country.  The ease and perfect freedom of this mode of travelling, its highly beneficial physical effects, the leisure thus afforded in which to study the beautiful scenery in otherwise
remote and inaccessible districts, all mark this as one of the most profitable and pleasant modes of summer recreation.  To walk two hundred miles in a fortnight is an easy thing, and it is infinitely more refreshing for a man of sedentary habits than the same length of time spent lying on the sands of some beach, or idling in a farm-house among the hills."

        "There are no professional guides in New England, but the people are prompt and willing to answer all civilly put questions.  Gentlemen from abroad will remember that there is here, especially in the country, no class of self-recognized peasantry, and that a haughty question or order will often provoke a reply couched in all 'the native rudeness of the Saxon tongue.'"