lace with a beautiful garden, orangery, and the choicest flowers; but
the most attractive object here is the mausoleum, a beautiful structure,
containing two most remarkable statues of the late King and Queen, on
which the light is transmitted through richly stained windows, producing
a very solemn and imposing effect, not excelled by the tomb of Napoleon
recently erected at Paris, or that of Marie Louise and their son at
Vienna.

From Berlin we proceeded to Hamburg, which on my former visit had
suffered from an extensive conflagration. All that part of the city has
been since rebuilt, and is now covered with streets of warehouses on a
most magnificent scale.

There is also a very fine range of buildings along the Aster, a fine
sheet of water connected with the Elbe, containing great quantities of
fish and numerous swans floating on its surface.

There is also a very large Exchange, very numerously attended at high
change time, presenting a very extraordinary spectacle to those in the
gallery above, and leading some of us to wonder how many false
statements were mingled in the sounds then produced.

We took a drive round the city, and on returning through some parts of
the old town we found the streets so narrow and dirty that we thought
the fire had hardly gone far enough.

As we approached nearer home our desire to arrive, like falling bodies,
increased in intensity, and we engaged the first steamer to Hull.

It proved to be the "Transit," very improperly named, being one of the
slowest on that station. We found it very small and the deck entirely
covered with hampers of cherries and cucumbers, and the interior
accommodation little better.

This, with unfavourable weather, made the three and a half days' sail
appear very long and disagreeable, but at the same time rendered doubly
dear, home, sweet home.

We completed the excursion in little over five weeks, and considered
ourselves very amply repaid for all the trouble and expense, and do not
hesitate to recommend the same trip to all persons having the three
important requisites--means, time and inclination.

FOOTNOTES:

[1] Count Alexander Adlerberg.

[2] Count Vladimer Adlerberg, Minister of the Imperial Household and
personal friend of the Tsar.

[3] Mrs. Heywood.

[4] Serfdom was abolished in 1861.

[5] Mrs. Heywood.

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