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present, ranged ourselves and toasted " Our enemies in 

 war, but our friends in peace." I am particularly fond of 

 a man who speaks well of his country, and the peculiar 

 warmth of Englishmen on this subject is admirable. I 

 have had a note from Lord de Tabelay, who is anxious to 

 see my drawings and me, and begs me to go to his domain 

 fourteen miles distant, on my way to Birmingham. I ob- 

 served that many persons who visited the exhibition 

 room investigated my style more closely than at Liver- 

 pool. A Dr. Hulme spent several hours both yesterday 

 and to-day looking at them, and I have been asked many 

 times if they were for sale. I walked some four miles out 

 of the town ; the country is not so verdant, nor the country 

 seats so clean-looking, as Green Bank for instance. The 

 funnels raised from the manufactories to carry off the 

 smoke appear in hundreds in every direction, and as you 

 walk the street, the whirring sound of machinery is con- 

 stantly in your ears. The changes in the weather are 

 remarkable ; at daylight it rained hard, at noon it was 

 fair, this afternoon it rained again, at sunset was warm, 

 and now looks like a severe frost. 



September 14, Thursday. I have dined to-day at the 

 home of Mr. George W. Wood, about two miles from the 

 town. He drove me thither in company with four gentlemen, 

 all from foreign countries, Mexico, Sumatra, Constantinople, 

 and La Guayra ; all were English and had been travelling 

 for business or pleasure, not for scientific or literary pur- 

 poses. Mrs. Wood was much interested in her gardens, 

 which are very fine, and showed me one hundred bags of 

 black gauze, which she had made to protect as many 

 bunches of grapes from the wasps. 



September 15. FROST. This morning the houses were 

 covered with frost, and I felt uncommonly cold and shiv- 

 ery. My exhibition was poorly attended, but those who 

 came seemed interested. Mr. Hoyle, the eminent chemist, 

 came with four very pretty little daughters, in little gray 



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