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Will you not take a cab with me? I have been trying 
for an omnibus in vain this half hour, and I have 
made an appointment with some friends there at half 
past ten.” We agreed at once to this reasonable and 
very convenient proposition, and we shared the ex- 
pense accordingly, with many expressions of thanks 
on the lady’s part. Before we had reached within 
half a mile of the Crystal Palace we were obliged to 
fall into dense line, with a close double file of cabs, 
carriages, dog-carts, and other “ vehicular convey- 
ances,” all wending their way thither, a similar file 
of empty carriages returning on the other side of the 
street; the sidewalks as well as the roads inside the 
park all crowded with pedestrians. Early as we were, 
a vast number of people were already there, but scat- 
tered through the vast interior, they scarcely made a 
crowd, until midday, when the more attractive parts 
of the structure, the principal streets and squares, so 
to say, were thronged. 
As to what we saw, is it not written at length in 
the great Official Catalogue (as far as that ponder- 
ous document is yet published), besides the Abridged 
Catalogue, in itself quite a sizable book, which we 
mean to bring home, with the Synopsis, and other 
things, quite a library, and I dare say you have heard 
and read quite enough about it. I doubt whether you 
have seen the leet nit and spirited articles in the 
“* Times,” beginning long before the building was 
finished, which give a most admirable and_ lively 
account of everything. 
The general impression of the interior was not quite 
so imposing, did not give such an idea of the vastness, 
as when we saw it in April, less full, and the long 
spaces unbroken. 
