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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, 1 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 customers. 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. 

 1 William Henry Hunt (1790-1864). 



