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CHAPTER XXVH. 



English Vehicles A Feudal Castle and Modern Aristocratic Mansion 

 Aristocracy in 1850 Primogeniture Democratic Tendency of Politi- 

 cal Sentiments Disposition towards the United States Combativeness 

 Slavery. 



f" AND 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 a " Welsh 



car," 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 "all the go" in England. They are excessively 

 heavy and cumbrous compared with ours, the wheels much less 

 in diameter, and they must run much harder, 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 among the 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, 



