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After spending a pleasant week with our son and 

 other dear friends in Paris, we crossed that dreadful 

 channel from Calais to Dover, and reached London 

 February 24th. I see by the papers that a proposition 

 is being made to bridge the Channel. It is only a 

 short time since an Act of Parliament was asked for 

 to charter a company proposing to tunnel it. Some 

 of these days they will propose to balloon it, and then 

 when everything has been suggested they will fall 

 back on the time-honored custom of boating it, even 

 if it does stir up the bile of the restless traveller. 



BELFAST, IKELAND, May 24th, 1888. 



