Lincoln telegraph., 1840-07-30
European COrrcspOndence,""NO. 9.
LONDON, July Ist, 1910.

LONDON; July Isl, lc4O'
To the Edtior Of the Lincoln Telegraph:
DEAR SIR.-My last letter was written at sea,
and now that have for a short time felt myself
to be enjoying firm footing on British ground
and been traversing the hills and dales of Old
England with something of that delight which
must attend every descendant of either the
Anglo-Saxon or Norman race who visits for the
first time the land which is, of all others, most
rich in the antiquities, well as modern improve
ments of those extraordinary races of men, will
give you few more of my impressions.
Could 1 say something which would cause
even one of our fellow citizens to realize how
much visit to England would interest him,
and that his sons cannot be we'll educated with
out seeing with their own eyes, the country from,
and through which, ace have derived so much of
our attainment in science, art and literature, and
where alone, English character be most
thoroughly studied, ! then should feel that | had
written to some purpose. Most gladly would |
also perform the humble task of giving from my
own experience some hints which may prove use
ful to any who may come after
An ocean and ship-bound life of twenty days,
be- was calculated to render our first view of the
green fields and hedges of Devonshire and the
lsle of Wight exceedingly delightful.
This beautiful Island, so Justly denominated
the garden of England, was inviting, that,
while our ship passed on to Portsmouth and to
London, we gladly stepped with our baggage on
board boat which came off from West Cowes,
nd in NJ, NO in ho of C,u
tom House Inspectors, with small apprehen-
sion that in the over-hauling of our numerous
packages, some pretence would be found to oc-
cason us delay or inconvenience but we were
determined to offer no bribe and manifest re-
serve, ,Fand, on offering our keys, were politely
requested to,keep them, and to open trunks
&c, ourselves, which, having undergone a slight
examination were released, when few shillIngs
were received by the principal officer, with ex-
pressons of pleasure, and were given with feel
ings gratitude for an unexpected degree of
dispatch
Although considerable proportion of our man.
ners, customs and comforts in the United States
have been derived from England, yet, in survey
Of the beautiful harbor and villages of East and
the Isle of Wight on the twelfth Of May, al
most every object, belonging to either the miner
al, the vegetable or the animal Kingdoms, or to
the arts of human life, eyinced to us that we
were in new and peculiar country. The har-
Dor filled with gentemen's Yachts or pleasure
boats at anchor from the size of ten tons to that
of four hundred, carrying fifty men and merely
de 10 If nlo &c
West Cowes, containing a population of some
thee or four thousand people crowded into third
of the compass of any village of the size in New
England, its widest streets being incapable of
admitting two carriages to pass abre asst but for
comparatively short distances, while the vast es-
tates of the large land holders, confne, both the
town and every common man, to mere corner.
These were striking features. And then, the
perfect unlikeness of almost every two buildings
the nea'ness with which every inch of ground
is occupied and cutiyated-the smoothncss of the
roads all over the Isand--the beauty of the hedg-
and the fields s,-the thatched roofs with the
hay and grain Rcks-the Donkey, the Poncys,
the large black cattle and black ia ced sheep-the
chalk cliffs and universally of flint rag-stone,
with many other striking peculiarities besides
Nncient castles and churches all these appeared
stfsnge.
Iha Island il interesting you know in
Roman Dsld Norman, as well as English history,
and Its sncient Caris-brook Castle where
Charles lst, vas imprisoned, is full of interest.
bnt' must detev any further remarks on them,
70 future opportunity, and remain,
Truly Yours,
n II