268 AUDUBON 



November 13. I arrived at Twizel Hall at half-past 

 four in good time for dinner, having travelled nearly eighty- 

 miles quite alone in the coach, not the Mail but the Union. 

 Sir William Jardine met me on my arrival. I assure thee 

 it was a pleasure to spend two days here, — shooting while 

 it was fair, and painting when rainy. In one of our walks 

 I shot five Pheasants, one Hare, one Rabbit, and one 

 Partridge; gladly would I remain here longer, but my 

 work demands me elsewhere. 



York, November 18. I have been here five hours. The 

 day was so-so, and my companions in the coach of the 

 dormouse order; eighty-two miles and no conversation is 

 to me dreadful. Moreover our coachman, having in sight 

 a coach called the " High-Flyer," felt impelled to keep up 

 with that vehicle, and so lashed the horses that we kept 

 close to it all the while. Each time we changed our 

 animals I saw them quite exhausted, panting for breath, 

 and covered with sweat and the traces of the blows they 

 had received ; I assure thee my heart ached. How such 

 conduct agrees with the ideas of humanity I constantly 

 hear discussed, I leave thee to judge. 



Liverpool, November 22. I left Manchester at four this 

 morning; it was very dark, and bitterly cold, but my 

 travelling companions were pleasant, so the time passed 

 quite quickly. At a small village about half-way here, 

 three felons and a man to guard them mounted the coach, 

 bound to Botany Bay. These poor wretches were chained 

 to each other by the legs, had scarcely a rag on, and those 

 they wore so dirty that no one could have helped feeling 

 deep pity for them, case-hardened in vice as they seemed 

 to be. They had some money, for they drank ale and 

 brandy wherever we stopped. Though cold, the sun rose 

 in full splendor, but the fickleness of the weather in this 

 country is wonderful; before reaching here it snowed, 

 rained, and cleared up again. On arriving I went at once 

 to the Royal Institution, and on my way met William 



