TWELFTH LETTEK LONDON. 



n\ NCE more in the City the great city of LONDON, 

 ^[ or, as the rough countryman calls it, " Lun'un." 

 This great centre of British commerce, civilization 

 and power is not to be measured as we measure other 

 places. To them we by-and-by get accustomed we 

 know all their streets ; we find out every " nook and 

 cranny." 



With all objects of interest " the si'ghts " we are 

 very familiar, but who can so speak of Lun'un ? I 

 remember when wife and I first landed in the great 

 city, our objective point was Shoot-up -Hill, Brondes- 

 bury. We landed at King's Cross. We asked direc- 

 tion of the employees at the station. " Brondesbury, 

 Brondesbury. I seay, Bill, wares Brondesbury ? " As 

 for Shoot-up-Hill, I might as well have asked him 

 for some cross-roads in Timbuctoo. However, after a 

 little we descended to those lower regions where, 

 amidst clanking of chains and sulphurous fumes and 

 darkness, and terrible din, we come by the under- 

 ground railway to Brondesbury, in the north, and go 



