A WALK ABOUT CHESTER. Ill 



CHAPTER XIII. 



CHESTER WITHOUT. A &quot;WALK ON THE WALLS. ANTIQUITIES. STRIKING 



CONTRASTS. 



Chester, June 2d. 



Tl/TY journal is behindhand several days, what little time 

 -&quot;* I have had to write being occupied in finishing my last 

 letter. Meantime, I have seen so much, that if I had a week 

 of leisure I should despair of giving you a good idea of this 

 strange place. But that you may understand a little how 

 greatly we are interested, I will mention some of the objects 

 that we have seen, and are seeing. Use your imagination to 

 the utmost to fill up the hints, rather than descriptions, of 

 these that I shall give you. You need not fear that when 

 you come here the reality will disappoint you, or fail to as 

 tonish you with its novelty, its quaintness, and the strange 

 mingling of venerable associations with its modern art and 

 civilization. 



We were about to leave the printer s for a walk on the 

 wall. I will not detain myself with a detailed account of our 

 proceedings, but imagine that you are with me, while 1 point 

 out to you a few of the note-worthy objects. 



We are on the top of the wall, a few feet from the side of 

 the archway through which we entered the town. Look down 

 now on the outside. The road, just before it enters the gate, 

 crosses, by a bridge, a deep ravine. In it, some seventy feet 



