Diary, Sketches and Reviews
by Robert Dodge
Format: Paperback
ISBN13: 9780217826884
Paperback|9780217826884
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: DIARY OF A TOUR IN EUROPE. 35 King John, and Preston. An Iron Master got in my car at Wigan; his firm, he said, now employ six thousand operatives, at an expense of one thousand pounds per day; he was a Director in the North British Railway Company; their capital is twenty-eight millions sterling, and their last dividend ten per cent. Shares low?worth two hundred and five, but sell now one hundred and fifty. Lunched at the Albion, Manchester, and took rails at twenty-five minutes past 1, P. M., for Sheffield; fine scenery on the road, and highly cultured; town is horrible; drove through to Baslow twelve miles off. The country now rises into the grand peak of Derbyshire, with the loveliest of valleys. The Wheat Sheaf Inn is the perfection of a rural inn; it is at the gateway to the park of the Palace of Chatsworth. Mr. Francis H., of New York came up to my parlor to see me; he was just then leaving for town. After tea took a delightful stroll in the neighborhood, through its quiet lanes, rich fields, and beautiful prospects. 15TH.?Started early in a pony phaeton to Thorn Bridge, to Mr. M.'s house, a fine old mansion; was kindly received, engaged to dine and church with them to-morrow; walked vrith Mr. M. over to Monsell Dale, a picturesque vale near by. Started back to be in time for the gates to open at Chatsworth Palace. Obtained an order through Mr. M. from Miss Paxton, to see the interior of the conservatory, then drove up to the north entrance of the palace. The house ia some three hundred feet long by one hundred andninety feet deep, of pure Ionic style; the ornaments are urns, and on the freize, a snake in the grass, the crest of Cavendish. The first room you enter is on the left side of the first inner court, and the whole stone work is of the same fine light dra...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217826884 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217826881 |
| Weight | 0.55 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.38 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 164 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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