London
Sept. [September] 16
[No entry] 
Liverpool
Sept. [September] 17. Cloudy with light wind. Rather
warm.
  Spent the forenoon repacking my trunk
and doing a little final shopping.
  At 3.30 P.M. drove to the Cunard Wharf
and went aboard the tender which
left for the "Pavonia" lying in
mid-stream, at 4 P.M. promptly.
  On reaching the steamer I found
that my room-mate was a young 
Englishman, John Gardner by name.
Morrill Wyman exchanged berths with
him and came in with me.
  There were many Gulls flying about
the Mersey, Chiefly L. [Larus] ridibundus, all in
young or winter plumage, & a few argentatus.
As the tide was too low to cross the
bar the Pavonia did not get under
way until after 7 o'clock.
  Dr. Wadsworth of Boston and a 
Mr. Elliott, an Englishman, are among
the most agreeable of the habitus
of the smoking room.