150 AN AMERICAN FARlfER IN ENGLAND. 



find that my mind was strongly, though it would seem uncon 

 sciously, impressed by it ; for there returns to me, as I very 

 vividly remember its appearance, a feeling of quiet, wholly 

 uncritical veneration, of which I believe a part must be due to 

 the breadth of green turf of the graveyard, and deep shade of 

 the old trees in which it is upreared. There were scarcely 

 any edifices that I saw in Europe that produced in me tho 

 slightest thrill of such emotion from sublimity as I have often 

 had in contemplation of the ocean, or of mountains, that it 

 was not plainly due less to the architectural style, than to the 

 connection and harmony of the mass with the ground upon 

 which it was placed. The only church that stopped me sud 

 denly with a sensation of deep solemnity, as I came un 

 expectedly under it, as it were, in turning the corner of a 

 street, was one that stood upon a bold, natural terrace, and in 

 which the lines of the angles of a heavy tower were continuous 

 and unbroken from base to summit. 



At half-past six we took seats in the second-class cars for 

 Portsmouth, and were favoured with a specimen of a corpora 

 tion s disregard for the convenience of the public, and the ac 

 complishment of their own promises, that a New Jerseyman 

 would almost have growled at. There was a full hour s un 

 necessary detention at the way-stations, and after having 

 arrived near the terminus, that much behind the time-tables, 

 the tickets were collected and the doors locked upon us, and 

 we were kept waiting a long time within a few rods of the 

 station-house. Some one at length got out at the windows, 

 but was sent back by the guard. When we requested to 

 know what was the objection to our leaving, we were 

 answered it was against the rules of the company for any 

 passengers to be allowed upon the ground without the station. 

 After waiting some time longer, we rose in numbers too 

 strong for the guards, who, however, promised that we should 



