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showing him, the most attractive features of the Con- 

 tinent, I determined to extend my visit to Berlin. I 

 may add that, notwithstanding the promises of the 

 promoters and leading officials connected with the ex- 

 hibition, / never received one farthing for viy services, 

 not even my travelling expenses, nor the amount of my 

 hotel bill \ Needless to say that I left the city with 

 rather unpleasant feelings. We passed vid Brunswick 

 to Berlin, visiting Potsdam, and to Dresden and 

 Saxon, Switzerland, returning vid Leipsic and 

 Cologne, touching at several of the more famous 

 cities in Belgium, and paying a visit to the field of 

 Waterloo, then vid Calais home, with an empty 

 purse. Indeed, had it not been for the kind assist- 

 ance of a stranger, whom I chanced to meet in 

 Calais, a fellow passenger, I should not have been 

 able to pay my way through to London. Thus ended 

 my Schleswig-Holstein experiences at Altona. I 

 have since heard that it was no uncommon occurrence 

 for English judges to be disappointed at receiving 

 their accustomed charges on the Continent. My 

 advice, therefore, to all my friends is, to have ' the 

 money down ' before they leave home to perform any 

 official function at a foreign agricultural exhibition. 

 My impression is again confirmed, that in agriculture 

 our own country is far in advance, in its practical 

 results, to every other. 



