tJAMlL'lON SCtENTIFlC ASSOCIATION. lOl 



We would mention, also, the touch of completeness and finish 

 given to everything newly built (in towns and cities), even to the 

 minutest detail— not a stone or brick too much, not a stone or 

 brick too little, remnants and refuse carted away somewhere out of 

 sight, the roadwa\' unitormh' rounded in centre, paved or cemented 

 to the curb where the flag or cement walk begins, and is wide 

 enough to complete full range of the street between neat, low, brick 

 or stone walls ruiniing along either side in the residential portions, 

 and backed by neatly built stone or brick dwellings in rows usually 

 at a imiform distance from the street. 



Not a blade of grass is to be seen where it has no business, 

 and where liedges predominate instead of brick walls, it is scarcely 

 too much to say, one is given the impression that the attendaiit or 

 gardener who kept the hedge in trim had once been a professor of 

 the tonsorial art, and had learned the symmetrical "close cut" well. 

 The visitor at Liverpool has only to cross the Mersey to the towns 

 of Seacombe, Kgremont and New Brighton on the west shore to 

 witness for himself an illustration of the facts above stated. 



We have already said Biitain is a land of beauty, and judg- 

 ing from the appearance of many portions we have traversed in the 

 north and south of England, in Scotland, also in Ireland, we would 

 say that it well deserves the name. 



The beneficent influences of that remarkable ocean current, 

 the Gulf Stream, preserves the land, especially the southern 

 portions in a state of almost perpetual verdure, consequently the 

 picturesque, we might say romantic looking hills and dales are 

 garbed in green for the greater portion of the year, and are best 

 seen during the sunny months of June and Jui\-. 



From the town of Stretford, a submit of Manchester, England, 

 which we made headquarters during our stay of three months, we 

 visited points of interest in various cities and country districts. 

 Much could be written, said and pictured of London, Liverpool and 

 other populous centres, but we propose, at this time, to throw upon 

 the screen, principally, illustrations of localities less frequently 

 visited by those; going abroad, consequently less heard of at this 



