Travel dairy - on monotonousness

" If the customes and the manners of men were everywhere the same , there would be no office so dull as that of a traveller, for the difference of hills , valleys, rivers, in short, the various views in which we may see the face of the earth, would scarce afford him  a pleasure worthy of the face of his labour....."

- Henry Fielding  in 'The voyage to Lisbon'- 1755  ( from the book "The TAO OF TRAVEL' by Paul Theroux pg 40 - as read  on 15/2/13