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Excerpt from Notes of Travel in Northern Europe
Thursday, the 21st of June, was a foggy, drizzly day, in London; such a day as Englishmen appear to delight in calling "nasty." The walking in the streets where the mud was about the composition of the inside of an average loaf of London baker's bread was declared to be "beastly." [You must not say that you have been or are liable to be seasick; you must not employ that term when speaking in "society" in the metropolis; you must or may admit that you are not a good traveler; but "nasty" and "beastly" are words frequently used by ladies and gentlemen in conversation at a fashionable dinner-party. The former is pronounced with a breadth of accent on the "a" that is of itself at first almost medicinal to a stranger from Yankeeland.]
We are glad to get on board the Belle at 6 o'clock at night - out of the rain. And such a long carriage-ride as it is from Russell Square to the steamer-landing; no end of streets, and ever-changing variety of trades and inhabitants. The incomprehensible immensity of this tremendous city again fairly oppresses us.
The Gothenburg steamer starts from Millwall Docks, London, at 1 o'clock in the morning. You are requested to be on board not later than 9 o'clock, the evening before sailing. And we found that most of the passengers were at the supper-table, which was spread at 8 p.m.
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