Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1880-08-02
NO. 100.
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Continued
MY TRIP 70 EUROPE.

London, August a6.-we did not return to
London from. our visit to Windsor, without
crossing the Thames 10 Eton. The two viii
lagos Of Windsor and Eton are only divided
by the river, and are connected by substan-
Ill bridge. They are however in different
counties. Windsor is in Berkshire, the
county of hirches; Eton in Buckingham, the
home of the beeches. 1t was not a long
walk from the bridge to the college grounds.
Eton College is the famous school where
1000 boys of the families of the nobility and
gentry are educated from year to year, and
| fitted for the universities of Oxford and CAM
bridge. Ii was founded in l440 by Henry
vi, the pious but not warlike king. and has
been enlarged and improved as the years
have gone by. The students were all absent
at our visit, ON an eight weeks vacation.
The college buildings are of brick, and
surround two large courts or quadrangcs.
The walls and pillars show marks of the
presence of long generations of boys, and
that the boys are boys in all countries. The
buildings are substantial, and look antique
and time-woru, but not handsome or impos-
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SCENERY ON ihE THAMES
The eny .rons of Eton present nothing bold
or rugged, but have all the charming charac.
teristics of English PASTORAL landscape.
Gray the author of the Elegy, was an Eton-
ian, and in after years thus describes the
scene:-
"Ye towers, that from the stately brow
or Windsor heights, the expanse below
whos, ,nrr ,sbo ol 'mmi an o' h eaa' survey survey
Wandcrs the hoary Thame. along
Its silver winding way"
The same quiet beauty and loneliness. the
same mingled groves and fields, scattered
trees and verdant meadows. with pleasing
villages interspersed. mark the scenery
along the meandering course of the Thames
from Eton and Windsor to London.
AN ALhi'A' RIDE THROUGH ENGLAND
Glasgow, August 2s.-My last day in Lon
don was wet one. The rain poured down
large part of the day. This climate is GER
taiiily consistent with itself. A fair day il
exceptional, and is sure to be followed by a
wetter one than usual, as though to make up
for lost time.
Having completed my preparations, and
taken leave Of my friends, took the cars at
ten o'clock yesterday morning for Glasgow.
BY the courtesy of the conductor, l was
seated in roomy, genteel saloon car, fur
nshed with all necessary conveniences for
comfortable Journey. There was no other