118 AN AMERICAN FARMER IN ENGLAND. 



jesty (by way of Lord Palmerston s head). The Roman 

 masonry that resisted the Roundhead batteries, has yielded 

 to the engines of peace. 



But, as we move on, even higher marks of civilization are 

 pointed out to us. Here, close to the wall, and in the shadow 

 of the old tower, is a public bath and wash-house. A little 

 back is a hospital for the poor, and near it a house of correc 

 tion. Across the valley is a gloomy-looking workhouse, 

 and in another direction a much more cheering institution, 

 beautifully placed on a hill, among fine, dark, evergreen 

 trees, through which you can see the bright sunshine and 

 smile of God falling upon it. It is the Training College a 

 normal school, for preparing teachers for the church schools 

 of the diocese. And here, on the left, as we approach the 

 north gate again, is an old charity school-house, the Blue-coat 

 Hospital. The boys at play are all young George Washing- 

 tons, dressed in long-skirted blue coats, and breeches, and 

 stockings. 



.... So here we are, back at the good-natured printer s 

 office, having been a circuit of three miles on the walls of the 

 city. Its population is twenty -five thousand (mostly within). 

 If you have observed that nearly all the houses are low, you 

 will not suppose that much room is taken up by streets and 

 unoccupied grounds, where that number is accommodated in 

 such limited space, and you will be .ready to explore the in 

 terior with great curiosity. If your taste for the quaint and 

 picturesque is at all like mine, you will be in no danger of dis 

 appointment. 



