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Our journey here lost the interest arising from beautiful

scenery, but we arrived in a few days at Rotterdam, whence we

proceeded by sea to England. It was on a clear morning, in the

latter days of December, that I first saw the white cliffs of

Britain. The banks of the Thames presented a new scene; they were

flat but fertile, and almost every town was marked by the

remembrance of some story. We saw Tilbury Fort and remembered the

Spanish Armada, Gravesend, Woolwich, and Greenwich-places which I

had heard of even in my country.

At length we saw the numerous steeples of London, St. Paul's

towering above all, and the Tower famed in English history.

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