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                         OVER THE OCEAN;
                                OR,
                        SIGHTS AND SCENES
                                IN
                          FOREIGN LANDS.

                                BY
                          CURTIS GUILD,

            EDITOR OF THE BOSTON COMMERCIAL BULLETIN.

                              BOSTON:
                   LEE AND SHEPARD, PUBLISHERS.
                             NEW YORK:
                   LEE, SHEPARD AND DILLINGHAM.
                               1871.


     Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1871,
                       BY LEE AND SHEPARD,
    In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.

           Cambridge: Printed by Welch, Bigelow, & Co.

          Stereotyped at the Boston Stereotype Foundry,
                       No. 10 Spring Lane.




PREFACE.


The following pages are the record of the fruition of years of desire
and anticipation; probably the same that fills the hearts of many who
will read them--a tour in Europe.

The habits of observation, acquired by many years' constant occupation
as a journalist, were found by the author to have become almost second
nature, even when the duties of that profession were thrown aside for
simple gratification and enjoyment; consequently, during a journey of
nearly seven months, which was enjoyed with all the zest of a first
tour, the matter which composes this volume was prepared.

Its original form was in a series of sketches in the columns of the
Boston Commercial Bulletin. In these the writer attempted to give as
vivid and exact an idea of the sights and scenes which he witnessed as
could be conveyed to those who had never visited Europe.

Whether describing Westminster Abbey, or York Minster,
Stratford-on-Avon, or the streets of London; the wonders of the Louvre,
or the gayeties and glitter of Paris; the grandeur of the Alpine passes;
the quaintness of old continental cities; experiences of post
travelling; the romantic beauties of the Italian lakes; the underground
wonders of Adelsberg, or the aqueous highways of Venice,--the author
aimed to give many minute particulars, which foreign letter-writers deem
of too little importance to mention, but which, nevertheless, are of
great interest to the reader.

That the effort was, in some measure, successful, has been evinced by a
demand for the sketches in permanent form, sufficient to warrant the
publication of this volume.

In so presenting them, it is with the belief that it may be pleasant to
those who have visited the same scenes to revisit them in fancy with the
writer, and with a hope that the volume may, in some degree, serve as a
guide to those who intend to go "over the ocean," as well as an
agreeable entertainment to the stay-at-homes.

      C. G.




CONTENTS.


                                                                  PAGE
    CHAPTER I.

    Going Abroad.--What it costs.--Hints to Tourists.--Life
    on board Ship.--Land Ho!--Examining Luggage.--The Emerald
    Isle.--Blarney Castle.--Dublin.--Dublin Castle.--St.
    Patrick's Cathedral.--Cheap John's Paradise.--Phoenix
    Park.--Across the Irish Sea.--Railroad travelling in
    England.--Guard _vs._ Conductor.--Word to the Wise.--
    Railroad Stations.--An Old English City.--Chester
    Cathedral.--The City Walls.                                   1-28


    CHAPTER II.

    Chester to Liverpool.--An English Breakfast.--A Trial of
    Patience.--Liverpool Docks.--St. George's Hall.--Poverty
    and Suffering.--The Lake District.--Home of the Poets.--
    Keswick.--An English Church.--The Druids' Temple.--
    Brougham Hall.--A Roadside Inn.                              28-46


    CHAPTER III.

    Edinburgh.--Historic Streets.--Edinburgh Castle.--Bonnie
    Dundee.--Rooms of Historic Story.--The Scottish Regalia.
    --Curiosities of the Old City.--Holyrood Palace.--Relics
    of the Past.--Holyrood Abbey.--Antiquarian Museum.--Scott
    and Scotland.--Hawthornden.--Roslin Chapel.--Melrose
    Abbey.--The  Abbey Hotel.--Abbotsford.--Stirling