St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-10-25
The Tourjee European Excursion.
A PLEASANT JAUNT THROUGH THE OIL
WORLD.
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la shaking the duSt-or mud for there
was slight rain-Of Antwerp from our
feet, we bade adieu to the domain of
King Leopold of Belgium, and soon
after entered that of His Majesty King
William of the Netherlands, halting Just
long enough at the junction station of
ROosendaal to convince His Majesty's
customs officers that we were honest trav-
ellers, and to change cars. Then we push
mills and rows of poplar trees, down to
the town of Vlissingen. at the mouth of
the Scheldt. where the steamer Stad-
Vlissingen is waiting to convey us
across the North Sea to England. Wis
singer is the Dutch name of the port,
and Flushing its English title, though
why the two nations, and the world al
together, cannot unite on one name it
puzzles us to discover. This double
naming of places, or the translation of
the names into different tongues, is
often very confusing to the traveller
who finds that familiar names of cities
sometimes are lost entirely. KOln is
not a bad exchange for Cologne, nor
lMaims for Mayence, but when Air-la
| ChapeLle becomes Adchen, Munich Nun
chen and Flushing VHssingen, the transi
ton is very considerable and not in
frequently disastrous to the careless
tourist.
The steamers that ply across the
North Sea, like those that navigate the
English Channel between England and
the French coast are small and uncom-
Portable craft. 1t frequently happens
that the passengers are much in excess
of the sleeping Accommodations, and
crowds of miserable, sea- tossed beings
are forced to lie about the deck. Such
steamers as are found in American in
land waters, or on Long Island Sound,
for example, would be out of place in
the open sea, but there are a great
many things the European railway and
steamer managers have to learn from
the Americans in the way of providing
comforts and conveniences for thel
patrons.
The mouth of the Thames is reached
early in the morning, and after landing
at Sheerness and submitting to the mild
and considerate inspection of the Eng
lish custOm-house authorities, we are
off 10y the London, Dover & Chatham
Railway once more for London. That
city is reached between eight and nine
o'clock and we are transferred from the
1 Holborn station in cabs through pour
ing shower to the Midland Grand Hotel
, on the opposite side of the town, where
three of the other divisions of DIR
Tourjee's party were already arrived
the remaining section being yet i'll Italy
II At night we took the cars for Glasgow
or rather Greenock, for the train branch
ed off at KilmarnOck directly for tn,
a latter city. 1t was an all night ride
but Messrs. Cook g. Son and the Mid
land Railway company made it us com
Portable as it could have been mad,
under the circumstances.
On arriving at GreenOck we were with
out delay transferred 10y a steam-tug t.
the steamer Circassia, which was lying
in the stream only awaiting our arrival
and while we were taking our break
fast, the great vessel weighed ancho
and pointed her PROV toward the At
lantic ocean, where, two days late
e nearly everybody was seriously engag
= ed in casting up their accounts will
old Neptune. The steamer sailed neare
some portions of the Irish coast thai
did the Devonia on the outward trip
for the reason that a stop was made a
'e Moville, near Londonderry, to take ol
board more passengers.