212 AN AMERICAN FARMER IN ENGLAND. 



CHAPTER XXVII. 



ENGLISH VEHICLES. A FEUDAL CASTLE AND MODERN ARISTOCRATIC MANSION 



ARISTOCRACY IN 1850. PRIMOGENITURE. DEMOCRATIC TENDENCY OF 



POLITICAL SENTIMENTS. DISPOSITION TOWARDS THE UNITED STATES. 



COMBATIVENESS. SLAVERY. 



JAND C., after a tramp among the mountains of Wales, 

 which they have much enjoyed, reached the village nearest 

 to where I was visiting last night. This morning a party was 



made with us to visit Castle. We were driven in n 



&quot; Welsh car,&quot; which is much the same kind of vehicle as the 

 two-wheeled hackney cabs that a few years ago filled the 

 streets of New York, and then suddenly and mysteriously 

 disappeared. Two-wheeled vehicles are &quot; all the go&quot; in En 

 gland. They are excessively heavy and cumbrous compared 

 with ours, the wheels much less in diameter, and they must 

 run much harder, and yet, over these magnificent roads, they 

 can load them much more heavily. 



The castle is on high ground, in the midst of the finest 

 park and largest trees we have seen. The moat is filled up, 

 and there are a few large modern windows in the upper part, 

 otherwise it differs but little probably from what it appeared 

 in the time of the crusaders. The whole structure is in the 

 form of a square on the ground, with four low round towers 

 at the corners, and a spacious court-yard in the centre. The 

 entrance is by a great arched gateway, over which the old 

 portcullis still hangs. 



