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agreeable, but, to me, highly pleasant. I snuffed it as if passing 

 a field of new mown hay snuffed and pondered, and at last was 

 brought to my mind the happy fireside of my friend, in the indis- 

 tinct memory of which this peculiar odor of English coal had 

 been gratefully associated. 



Coming on shore with no luggage or any particular business 

 to engage our attention, we plunged adventurously into the con- 

 fused tide of life with which the busy streets were thronged, 

 careless whither it floated us. Emerging from the crowd of por- 

 ters, hackmen, policemen, and ragged Irish men and women, on 

 the dock, we entered the first street that opened before us. On 

 the corner stood a church not un-American in its appearance 

 and we passed, without stopping, to the next corner, where we 

 paused to look at the dray-horses, exceedingly heavy and in ele- 

 gant condition, fat and glossy, and docile, but animated in their 

 expression. They were harnessed, generally, in couples, one 

 before another, to great, strong, low-hung carts, heavy enough 

 alone to be a load for one of our cartmen's light horses. Catch- 

 ing the bustling spirit of the crowd, we walked on at a quick 

 pace, looking at the faces of the men we met more than anything 

 else, until we came to a wall of hewn drab stone, some fifteen 

 feet high, with a handsomely cut balustrade at the top. There 

 was a large gateway in it, from which a policeman was driving 

 away some children. People were going in and out, and we fol- 

 lowed in to see what it was. Up stairs, we found ourselves on a 

 broad terrace, with a handsome building fronting upon it An- 

 other policeman here informed us that it was a railway station. 

 The door was opened as we approached it by a man in a simple 

 uniform, who asked us where we were going. We answered that 

 we merely wished to look at the building. " Walk in gentlemen ; 

 you will best take the right-hand platform, and return by the 

 other." A train was backing in ; a man in the same uniform 



