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The whole cost of living so we make but about seventy-five 

 cents each a day. As good entertainment would cost more 

 than that in New York. We have made a few purchases of 

 clothing, and find every thing we want cheaper than in New 

 York. 



Liverpool, Tuesday, 2Qth May. 



The common building material here is a light, greyish-red 

 brick. Stone of different colours is used in about the same 

 proportion that it is in New York. The warehouses are 

 generally higher than the same class of buildings there, but 

 the dwelling-houses lower, seldom over three stories. The 

 old houses, in narrow streets, are generally small, and often 

 picturesque from the carvings of time upon them, or from the 

 incongruous additions and improvements that have been made 

 to them at intervals. At the railway station we noticed such 

 differences in the windows of a two-story house near us, as 

 these. There were two below ; one of these, being a shop 

 front, was entirely modern, with large panes of glass in light 

 wooden sashes. The other was of small panes, set in heavy 

 wood-work, such as you see in our oldest houses. One of 

 the upper windows had small square panes set in lead ; those 

 of the other were foze/^e-shaped, and in neither were they 

 more than three inches wide. The frames were much wider 

 than they were high, and they opened sideways. In the 

 newer part of the city, the fashionable quarter, there are a 

 good many brick-walled houses faced with stucco. Others 

 are of Bath stone, and these are not unfrequently painted over 

 of the original colour of the stone. Bath stone, which is the 

 most common material of mason work, is a fine-grained free 

 stone, very easy to the chisel. It is furnished much cheaper 

 than our brown stone, so much so that there would be a 

 chance of exporting it to America with profit. There is a finer 

 sort of it, called by the masons Caen stone, which is brought 



