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very vividly remember its appearance, a feeling of quiet, wholly 

 uncritical veneration, of which I believe a part must be due to 

 the breadth of green turf of the graveyard, and deep shade of the 

 old trees in which it is upreared. There were scarcely any 

 edifices that I saw in Europe which produced in me the slightest 

 thrill of such emotion from sublimity as I have often had in con- 

 templation of the ocean, or of mountains, that it was not plainly 

 due less to the architectural style, than to the connection and 

 harmony of the mass with the ground upon which it was placed. 

 The only church that stopped me suddenly with a sensation of 

 deep solemnity, as I came unexpectedly under it, as it were, in 

 turning the corner of a street, was one that stood upon a bold, 

 natural terrace, and in which the lines of the angles of a heavy 

 tower were continuous and unbroken from base to summit. 



At half-past six we took seats in the second-class cars for 

 Portsmouth, and were favored with a specimen of a corporation's 

 disregard for the convenience of the public, and the accomplish- 

 ment of their own promises, that a New Jerseyman would almost 

 have growled at. There was a full hour's unnecessary detention 

 at the way-stations, and after having arrived near the terminus 

 that much behind the time-tables, the tickets were collected and 

 the doors locked upon us, and we were kept waiting a long time 

 within a few rods of the station-house. Some one at length got 

 out at the windows, but was sent back by the guard. When we 

 requested to know what was the objection to our leaving, we were 

 answered it was against the rules of the company for any passen- 

 gers to be allowed upon the ground without the station. After 

 waiting some time longer, we rose in numbers too strong for the 

 guards, who, however, promised that we should be prosecuted for 

 trespass, and made our escape. I may say, in passing, that the 

 speed upon the English roads is, on an average, not better than 

 on ours. It is commonly only from fifteen to twenty miles an 



