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The next morning we got our trunks from the ship, the custom 

 house officers searching them before they left the dockyard. 

 Books, letters, and daguerreotypes were examined minutely, but 

 the officers were very civil and accommodating ; so also were the 

 cartmen that took them to the inn for us. The expense of get- 

 ting our luggage through the searching office, and carting it a 

 mile, was only twenty-five cents for each trunk, and " tuppence 

 for beer." 



We went to a small lodging-house that we had examined last 

 night, and found it neat and comfortable, and kept by an agreeable 

 woman. We have a large front room, comfortably furnished, and 

 down stairs is a quiet parlor and dining-room. ( We breakfast in 

 the house, and dine and sup at an eating-house. The whole cost 

 of living so, with care, need be but about seventy-five cents each 

 a day. As good entertainment would cost more in New York. 

 We have made a few purchases of clothing, and find every thing 

 we want cheaper than in New York. 



Liverpool, Tuesday, May 2Sth. 



The common building material is a light, greyish-red brick. 

 Stone of different colors is used in about the same proportion 

 that it is in New York. The warehouses are generally higher 

 than the same class of buildings there, but the dwelling houses 

 lower, seldom over three stories. The old houses, in narrow 

 streets, are generally small, and often picturesque from the incon- 

 gruous additions and improvements that have been made to them 

 at intervals. At the railway station, we noticed such differences 

 in the windows of a two story house near us, as these : There 

 were two below, one of these, being a shop front, was entirely 

 modern, with large panes of glass in light wooden sashes. The 

 other was of small panes, set in heavy wood work, such as you 

 see in our oldest houses. One of the upper windows had small 



