Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1870-08-06
Letter from Rev. Mr.. McGifert.
NUMBER THREE
On THE THAMES,
Lnln 10 1ANA

On THE THAMES,
July 10, 1870.
DEAR FRIEND REED Would you know
the circumstances under which l write, imag-
inc yourself on the deck of steamship, sail,
ing rapidly down this river Of ancient fame, a
skylight for your desk, a camp stool for your
study chair, a glass by your side which you
take up every few minutes to scan some new
object of interest, companions constantly inter-
rupting you and-well cannot do the situa-
ton justice to understand, you must try it, If
indeed, there can be any position so difficult
that an editor cannot understand it by intui-
ton. But what shall poor traveller do? On
shore, sight seeing leaves no time by day for
letter writing. By night, the tagged body and
the full mind fall asleep at the task. There is
no remedy but to rise at O'Clock and pen
what thoughts sleep may have left US before
the world is astir; and this, to say the least, is
inconvenient ! speak from sad experience.
Therefore, be not surprised if nail this as q
golden opportunity TO do up correspondence
and bear kindly with broken style, and lack Of
thought, and even lack of sense, when travel
er writes you writing when travelling is re-
fined mode of martyrdom, and if our readers
be forced to bear little of the martyrdom in
| their endeayors to make sense of what we write,
it is well. Misery loves company, and we are
comforted.
So much for preamble. believe have in
hicted none in my previous notes. left Ire
land week ago to day rer steamer from Bel
| fast for Fleetwood, and have spent the time
| SINCE in England, confning my travels 10 Lam
cashire County, and to the City of London
and reserying other points of interest till my
return from the continent Lancashire Coun-
ty is the most populous portion of this popu-
lous country, and seems little less than one con-
tinuous city. Darwen, where spent day
with some friends, is unknown TO our geogra-
phies, yet it is city of half the size of Cleve-
land, and four miles from it in two directions
and eight in another are three cities of 10000
inhabitants each. doubt If any ofyour read
ers has ever heard their names. Then, eight
miles farther off is the little city of Manchester
with only half million inhabitants, TO say
nothing of the Borough of Liverpool, but lit
tie farther distant, with its population OF 700,
900. And between these little cities are towns
much larger than our pleasant yillage-and III
tie hamlets of 1000 people or so, clustering
about factory or two, in every direction
you climb slight elevation, you can coun
near 200 mills. scattered in sil directions, manu-
featuring almost every conceivable fabric. ant
these mills, with their constant Babel of noise
and their smoke which darkens the atmos
phere, have given to Lancashire its population
and wealth. have written "cIties," but th
term is technically incorrect These towns
with their teeming population. are mere bo
roughs, some of them having not even reaches
that dignity. Liverpool is but borough, an'
Manchester alone, in this section is a city, an'
has enjoyed that honor but for few years =