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means the most luxurious train in that country. 

 The " Observation Car" at the back, where a few 

 can sit and look, as from a balcony, at the receding 

 track, without, for some unknown reason, being 

 permitted to smoke, is an excellent addition that 

 would be welcome on our Scotch trains at home. 



On this particular run to Washington, the 

 scenery could well be spared, and the inside of 

 the car is more pleasing to the eye than the sur- 

 rounding landscape. One effect only — a sunset on 

 the Delaware river — was worth remembering. As 

 for bird life, for which I always keep a sharp look- 

 out, I saw no more than a couple of seagulls near 

 Baltimore, and when we stopped at that station, 

 my thoughts flew to the untasted terrapin for 

 which, in season, that city is justly famous, as well 

 as to the memory of having somewhere read 

 that the first blood shed in the war was that of a 

 Massachusetts man shot in its main street. So, 

 also, when we had pulled up at Philadelphia, I 

 wondered over what abstruse volume my young 

 friend of the Caronia might even then be 

 poring. 



I kept resolutely to the train, however, although 

 I had been adjured to break the journey at Balti- 

 more and see the prettiest girls in America. Not 

 St Anthony himself could have been firmer. It 

 was dark when I reached Washington, and I went 

 straight to my hotel and to bed. Next morning, 

 in the lucid intervals of a dull, wet Sunday, I 

 wandered among the elegant avenues of the 

 political focus of American thought, and everywhere 

 I saw signs that here was the intellectual capital of 

 the country. New York convinces you of America's 



