sies.

LETTER VII.

Great Western Railroad.--Swindon.--Bristol.--Scenes of early
Life.--Ancient City.--Clifton and Hot Wells.--Redcliffe
Church.--Chatterton.

LETTER VIII.

Bristol Cathedral.--Monuments and
Inscriptions.--Butler.--Mason.--Southey.--Cloisters.--Mayor's
Chapel.--Dundry.--Vine Prospect.--School attended in Boyhood.

LETTER IX.

Clifton.--Avon.--Hot Wells.--Vincent's Rocks.--Robert Hall.--Sublime
Scenery.--Leigh Court Picture Gallery.

LETTER X

Bath.--Royal Crescent.--Queen Square.--Cathedral.--Hot
Baths.--Bradford.--Trowbridge.--Devizes.--Cricket.

LETTER XI.

Tower of London; its History.--Horse Armory.--Antiquities and
Curiosities.--Executions.--Regalia, &c.

LETTER XII.

Thames Tunnel.--New Houses of Parliament.--House of Lords
described.--Fresco Paintings.--St. Stephen's Hall.--House of
Commons.--Westminster Hall; its Associations, festive and criminal.

LETTER XIII.

British Museum; its fine Galleries, Pictures, Library, Autographs, and
MSS.--The Place to study.--Lord Campbell.--Servant who resorted to it.

LETTER XIV.

Woolwich.--Naval Arsenal and Dock Yard.--Ships of War.--Yard.--Twenty
Thousand Cannon.--Greenwich.--Blackheath.--Lee Grove.--Golden Cross and
its Host.--Mr. Lawrence's Soiree.--Duke of Wellington.

LETTER XV.

Exhibition.--Season Tickets.--Wet Weather.--One May fine.--City
Streets.--Throng around Palace.--Arrival of the Queen.--Opening
Scenes.--Procession, &c.

LETTER XVI.

Fine Equipages.--Appearance of the Palace.--Walk through the
Exhibition.--American Contributions.--Greek Slave, &c.--Mediaeval
Court.--Kohinoor Glass Window.--Austrian Furniture.--Amazon of
Kiss.--Crusaders.--Galleries.--Transept.--Glass Fountain.--
Sculpture.--Veiled Vesta.--Machinery.--Models.--Model of
Liverpool.--Plate Glass.--Taunton Cabinet--Steam Power, &c.

LETTER XVII.

Royal Polytechnic Institution.--Lectures.--Egyptian Hall.--Panorama of
Overland Route to California.--Exeter Hall Sermons.--Wyld's great
Globe.--Zooelogical Gardens.--Christ's Church Hospital; its Boys.

LETTER XVIII.

Windsor Castle; its History.--Interior of the Palace.--
Pictures.--Waterloo Chamber.--St. George's Chanel.--Royal
Tombs.--Edward IV.--Henry VIII.--Charles I., Discovery of his Body in
1813, Account of the Appearance, &c.--Terraces of the Castle.--Eton
College.--Datchett.--Great Park.--Long Walk.--Celebrated
Trees.--Virginia Water.--Cumberland Lodge.--Frogmore.

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