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River Thames on one side and a beautiful piece of garden on the other. The situation was very lonely but pleasant, the English are particularly fond of such quiet and rural habitations, and here they generally contrive to amuse themselves by gardening, growing vegetables, and fruits for their own use, and flowers to adorn and beautify the place, and render it cheerful by their various and beautiful colours; many, even as gentlemen living independently, dig the ground with their own hands, and in fact go through all the duties of a gardener merely to pass away their time. Having taken some refreshments at our friend's house we had a post chaise and went to Windsor; the castle has for very many centuries been the residence of the Kings and Queens of England. It is in Berkshire, twenty-one miles west of London. Windsor Forest is fifty-six miles in circumference, the Great Park contains near four thousand acres and the Little Park about five hundred acres of ground. The castle is upon an eminence commanding a fine view of the Thames, and is surrounded by a terrace extending nearly two thousand yards, it has within the last twenty years had immense sums expended upon its alterations, and is now a palace which has no equal in the world for magnificence and convenience. The long walk in the Park is considered the most beautiful thing of its sort in Europe, a perfectly straight road runs from the principal entrance of the

castle to the top of a commanding hill in the Great Park, called Snow Hill, a distance of more than three miles; upon each side of this walk or road is a double row of fine old elm trees but they are passed their prime and in a few years will decay and be blown down.

It will no doubt strike the mind of those whose business it is to attend to this matter, at once to plant others, that when in the course of nature these trees have disappeared others will spring up and take their places. It is very beautiful to look along this immense straight road with its beautiful fringe of vegetation; and upon the hill, at the end of the walk, the prospect is of vast extent, and embraces a highly interesting district. Windsor Castle is at the feet of the beholder; on the left is beautiful forest scenery; to the right runs the Thames towards Richmond; on whose surface you will see the light pleasure boats gliding along with parties, who have quitted London, and its smoke and noise, to have a little pure air-to unbend the mind-to behold the varied and beautiful scenery which is to be so much admired all the way from London. And oh, how diversified is that which meets the eye from the summit of this hill! We can, in the different glimpses which we catch of the Thames, see the small steam boats which are constructed for passing through the numerous bridges, deco`rated with their gaily floating flags with which they

are dressed, and bearing hundreds of happy beings to have a day's pleasure. Previous to Gravesend becoming the place of resort which it has done within the last few years, in consequence of the cheap and excellent accommodation afforded by the steam vessels, all these parts used to be weekly inundated by visitors; but now it is the quieter resort of many happy groups, who, with their provision in their boat and with a few chosen friends and the members of their families, thus rationally contrive to have a day of recreation and of happiness.

About the year 1831, a very large equestrian statue of the King on horseback (George the Third) has been erected on the highest part of this hill; it is at the end of the long road from the Castle, and is to be clearly seen all the way; it is placed upon stone work like a huge rock, of twenty-four feet high, and the horse and man are twenty-six feet high, thus being fifty feet above the road. We are told by those who knew George the Third, that it is very much like him; he is not, however, dressed as an Englishman, and we, as foreigners, should have taken him for some Roman figure, similar to those in the British Museum. We understand the sculptor, Mr. Westmacott, thought it would make a better figure than if in the uniform, cocked hat, and large boots, which King George the Third wore. may look better, perhaps, to the eye; but the

grand object, of handing down the name and memory, the likeness, and the costume of the age in which he lived, is thus quite lost.

We then proceeded to Egham, saw the house selected for us by our tutor, which we approved of; and having arranged about what we should require, we looked out at the quiet little unobtrusive village, which was to be our residence, until we should feel that we knew enough of mathematics and English beneficially to study the writers upon ship-building and the displacement of bodies, so that we might advantageously judge from theory, and combine with practice, all that we should see, hear, and read upon the noble science of constructing a ship. Our arrival in this quiet spot with our Eastern costume created quite a sensation; all the people were gazing from their doors and windows at us; and, for a short period, we were looked upon quite as curiosities. Our tutor, the Reverend Mr. Hopkins, gave us always whilst we were with him, valuable assistance and advice; we received much kindness from him, and we thus express our entire satisfaction of the treatment we always received, and the information we gained, from him. Having settled ourselves down at Egham on the 28th of September, 1838, where we studied very regularly for a twelvemonth, it is not our intention to treat of anything that we saw in the order in which we viewed it, but we shall endeavour to describe all and every thing

that we have seen at different periods, when we gave ourselves a little recreation; and our readers must bear in mind that we did not go by chance to see this thing or that, but whenever we read a description of places worth seeing, or if any of our friends hinted that it was proper for us to visit certain places, we endeavoured so to do. We cannot for one moment imagine that our impressions, or description of what we saw and felt, will either instruct or amuse English people; but we do think many of our own countrymen, both Parsees and Hindoos, will be amused at hearing of what we saw in England; we may as well state here that we have confined ourselves strictly to truth; and if we have put a wrong construction upon anything that we have described, it has been for want of knowing better. We hope, in our little journal, any remarks we may make, may not be of that nature to give pain to We have endeavoured to avoid all perany one. sonal remarks; and when we speak of any sect, we mean our observations to apply generally, and not to individuals. We have, in our long stay in England, had much to make us attached to it. We have received friendly kindness from many, and have formed some friendships that on our side will cease but with our lives; we have received courtesy from a still greater number, and we shall ever think of England with sentiments of esteem and admiration.

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