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same way that passengers baggage is checked on our rail 

 roads. 



Wood is used in the interior of houses more than I had 

 imagined it would be. Its cost is high. I inquired the price 

 of what looked like a common &quot;Albany board,&quot; such as I buy 

 in New York for sixteen cents ; it was of the value of about 

 thirty -five cents. The kitchens, as far as we have observed, 

 are on the street floor, level with the living apartments. 

 Coarse pottery and wicker-work utensils are more common 

 than with us. Few of the houses in the town have trees about 

 them. Occasionally an old mansion is set a little back, and 

 has a little shrubby foliage in front of it most commonly of 

 elms dwarfed to the size and natural shape of a green-gage 

 plum-tree. There are, though, in the better part of the town, 

 some most charming public grounds. I have never seen any 

 thing in America to compare with them. I will speak of 

 them more particularly at another time. 



The surface of the ground on which the town is built is 

 irregular, and the streets crooked and running at every angle 

 with each other. Generally they are short, and if long, at 

 every few blocks the names are changed. The names are 

 often singular ; many, far apart, have the same with different 

 prefixes, as Great and Little, North and South, &c. We are 

 in &quot; Great Cross Hall street ;&quot; after a slight turn it is called 

 &quot;Tythe Bam street,&quot; and further on Chapel street. Tythe 

 Barn, I understand, is derived from the name of the building 

 in which the tithes were deposited when they were taken in. 

 kind a tenth of the hay, wheat, poultry, &c. There is a 

 steep ascent near us called &quot; Shaw s Brow ;&quot; it is fitted with 

 smooth stone tracks for cart-wheels, with narrow stones be 

 tween them set on end for the horses feet, double teams here 

 generally going tandem. The best streets are paved, as in New 

 York, only one-quarter the distance across them, the intermedi- 



