58 AN AMERICAN FARMER IN ENGLAND. 



ate space being macadamized. This makes a very pleasant 

 road. There is generally a wide side-walk, which is flagged as 

 in our cities ; but in the commercial streets it is oflener paved 

 like the carriage-way, and in the narrowest there is none at 

 all. The streets are very clean, and all the side-walks, gut 

 ters, and untravelled spaces appear to be swept every day. 



I have been through two markets. One of them is an 

 immensely large building, covering about two acres, right in 

 the centre of the town ; it is clean, light, and well ventilated. 

 What a wonder it is that the people of New York will put 

 up with such miserable, filthy, crowded hovels as their mar 

 kets are ! In this building there are over five hundred stalls 

 and tables. It has its own superintendant of weights and 

 measures, and a thorough and constant police. There are 

 twelve men whose employment is to keep it clean. The 

 garbage is passed readily through traps into vaults below, 

 from which it is removed at night. The rules for those who 

 use it, are excellent to secure healthy condition of food, neat 

 ness, order, and fair play, and they are strictly enforced. To 

 my mind, this structure, and the arrangements connected with 

 it, is an honour to Liverpool, not second to her docks. And 

 she has three other large public markets, besides small ones 

 for particular purposes. The meat stalls are frequently owned 

 by women, and, except a better supply of birds and rabbits, 

 did not offer any thing different from those of our butchers. 

 A part of the market seemed to be occupied by country 

 women for the sale of miscellaneous wares. 



The fish market was in another building, which was en 

 tirely occupied by women, nice and neat, though skinning 

 eels and cleaning fish. The milk market also seemed to be 

 altogether in the hands of women. Milk is not peddled about 

 as in New York, but sold from cellar-shops. If one wants a 

 cup of tea, our landlady runs across the street for a penny- 



