OR, PENCIL SKETCHES ON A RECENT VOYAGE TO, AND A TOUR IN, OLD ENGLAND. BY A YOUNG PHYSICIAN. BOSTON: PRINTED BY S. N. DICKINSON & CO. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1846, by JOHN SPENCE, Jr., M. D. In the Clerk's office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts. LETTER NO. XVI. Page. 76 Tower of London - Its Extent - Early History Refreshment Room - Horse Armory - Queen Elizabeth's Armory - Dungeon - Antique Weapons Nave Tombs of Elizabeth and Mary -Addison's Reflections - The Abbey at Evening - The Abbey at Midnight. 116 London Hospitals - Extent and Accommodations - Foundling Hospital - Chapel - Service — Dining Halls - Apartments - Design of the Institution........ 126 Off to Greenwich River Steamers Greenwich Hospital - Seamen Gallery - Stray Pensioners - Pensioners at Dinner - A Reflection Off to Slough - Telegraphic Wires Windsor Castle - English Rural Scenes Windsor Chapel - Princess Charlotte - Choir- Apartments in the Castle.. 137 Colosseum Museum of Sculpture - Panorama of London-Swiss Cottage – The Conservatories - Stalactite Cavern-Other Exhibitions....... SHIP AND SHORE: OR PENCIL SKETCHES. LETTER NO. I. Emotions on leaving Home The Captaingers-The Sea-Sea Life - Fishermen a gentle breeze It was a bright morning in mid-summer was abroad, and light, feathery clouds swept along the sky, fleckering the golden sun-light on the pavement with patches of shadow, as we left our home to embark in one of the new line of Packet ships running between the good city of Boston and Liverpool. There are peculiar emotions experienced by one about to leave the home of his childhood, especially a city distinguished above others for its intelligence, for its many and noble intellects, its schools, churches, charities, its many advantages, and embark for a foreign land. The home that one is about to leave, is felt to be dearer than ever. It vividly presents itself in all its varied attractions, revealing more sensibly the number and strength of the ties by which it binds him. And though the mind may cheer itself with |