St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-08-22

ned on the steamer have ever sine
been found necessary to our comfort
We have inquired in vain for rip
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Farmers are now hardly more than be
ginning hay-cutting. Seventeen sue
cessive Sundays till the last have beef
rainy,-it simply poured the first TIVE
after we landed. No wonder that ther,
has been in the churches of late mucl
prayer for the cessation of the foods
and no wonder that Dean Stanley OF
last Sunday expressed regret that tn,
pTayerboOk of his church did not fully
meet all the exigences of the weather
There will, without doubt, still be {
considerable, though possibly lessened
demand for American breadstuffs
Worthy of note, is it not, that we who
cross the water really bring our meat
bread, and cheese with us. And yet
let our home butchers mark it we'll
our mouths do not water for American
mutton after we have eaten the chop,
served us here.
Time fails us to give detailed ac-
count of our journeyings and sight
seeings for the past two weeks. We
have found not only great pleasure, but
increasing vigor of both body and brain
and have been extremely fortunate il
that the rains have come to us chiefly
while Oh the cars or on Sunday and we
have had the bright, clear days, with
perhaps a single forenoon excepted,
just where we most wished them. From
Dublin we crossed the Irish Sea to
HOlyhead, thence across the island
Anglesay through the famous tubular
bridge over Menai Strait into North
Wales, and along the sea-shore, in full
view of the broad beaches which at
Llandudno, Colwyn, and Rhyl are
much frequented by summer VISITORS
eightyfour miles by rail in two hours
to Chester where we spent three nights.
Here, warmly greeted by friends, we
saw the inside life of an English home
in town, and, through the kindness of
these friends, more of the curiosites of
this quaint and curious old town than
most strangers are wont to see. The
name Chester is derived from the Latin
castro, camp, whence is indicated the
Roman occupation, if not origin, of the
town. The walls, first built by the
Romans, are still carefully preserved
on the old foundations, the names of
some of the streets are the names of the
avenues of the old Roman camp, and
there are now found from time to time
relics of the first century. l obtained
three coins, all earlier than 90 A. D.,
which were dug up in excavating for a
house cellar only the Saturday previous
to my possession of them.
1t would be easy to fill letter with a
description of Chester Cathedral, and
an account of the efforts of Dean How
son-known the world over as one of
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its preservation, but we must reserve
this for another time. The Dean has a
noble face,-it was worth half the jour
ney to see it. A drive to Eaton Hall
the seat of the wealthiest DObleman OF
England and whose park has most
magnificent old lime trees and greatly
varied shrubbery, and row on the
river Dee, ''Deva's wizard stream" OF
Tennyson, were much enjoyed.
After al few hours in Liverpool, ournext
batting was among the English Lakes.
Lovely, Nesting waters, high peaks,
bold crags, sheer precipices, new piano.
ramas at every turn, soil trod daily by
Wordsworth, Coleridge, Southey, and
exit North, who shall dare chant
your praises after these bards? We
climbed Rydal Mount, sat on Words
worth's favorite seat, skirted Rydal
water, fingered at the graves of Words
worth and his daughter Dora, of Hart
ley Coleridge and Southey, walked past
the doors of Fox How, DR.. Arnold's
summer hOuse,-in itself, if not in its
memories, the most charming spot in
the whole regien,-saw GLOW the water
comes down at LOdore," and from the
top of the Druid hill behind Keswick
gazed with wonder and delight on the
grand amphitheatre of mountains which
enclose Derwentwater and Bassen-
thwaite.
1.-THE clouds
The mists, the shadows, light of golden suns,
Motions of moonlight, all come hither,-touch
And have answer"
Edinburgh gave us moist welcome
and cheerful, sunny goodbye. 1t is
the classic city of the north, in its
natural features, its architecture, and
its hitting memorials of the departed
great, more than any other the modern
Athens. If it failed in its unfortunate
attempt to erect a second Parthenon
ana II Its Nelson tower has little to dis
tlngulsh it from lighthouse, yet it can
Doast OF its Choragic monument in
memory of Dugald Stewart, of numer-
GUS public buildings of the purest Doric,
or Ionic, or Corinthian style, of fine
statues of Pitt, Wilson, Livingstone.
Simpson, the discoverer of chloroform.