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not allowed to continue his argument, and at ten I left 

 with Mr. Pyke for my lodgings. 



July 29. To-day I visited Mr. Hunt,^ the best landscape 

 painter of this city. I examined much of his work and 

 found some beautiful representations of the scenery of 

 Wales. I went to the Royal Institution to judge of the 

 light, for naturally I wish my work to have every possible 

 advantage. I have not found the population of Liverpool 

 as dense as I expected, and except during the evenings 

 (that do not at this season commence before eight o'clock) 

 I have not been at all annoyed by the elbowings of the 

 crowd, as I remember to have been in my youth, in the 

 large cities of France. Some shops here are beautifully 

 supplied, and have many custon ^rs. The new market is 

 in my opinion an object worth the attention of all travel- 

 ers. It is the finest I have ever seen — it is a large, high 

 and long building, divided into five spacious avenues, each 

 containing its specific commodities. I saw here viands of 

 all descriptions, fish, vegetables, game, fruits, — both in- 

 digenous and imported from all quarters of the globe, — 

 bird sellers, with even little collections of stuffed speci- 

 mens, cheeses of enormous size, butter in great abun- 

 dance, immense crates of hen's-eggs packed in layers of 

 oats imported from Ireland, twenty-five for one shilling. 

 This market is so well lighted with gas that this evening 

 at ten o'clock I could plainly see the colors of the irids of 

 living pigeons in cages. The whole city is lighted with 

 gas; each shop has many of these illuminating fires, and 

 fine cambric can be looked at by good judges. Mr. A. 

 Hodgson called on me, and I am to dine with him on 

 Monday ; he has written to Lord Stanley about me. He 

 very kindly asked if my time passed heavily, gave me a 

 note of admittance for the Athenaeum, and told me he 

 would do all in his power for me. I dined at the inn to- 

 day for the second time only since my arrival. 

 I William Henry Hunt (1790-1S64). 



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