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Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth, Vol. 1 (of 2)
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Dorothy Wordsworth
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Tuesday,
20th.--Market
day.
Streets
dirty,
very
rainy,
did
not
leave
Hull
till
four
o'clock,
and
left
Barton
at
about
six;
rained
all
the
way
almost.
A
beautiful
village
at
the
foot
of
a
hill
with
trees.
A
gentleman's
house
converted
into
a
lady's
boarding-school....
We
left
Lincoln
on
Wednesday
morning,
27th
July,
at
six
o'clock.
It
rained
heavily,
and
we
could
see
nothing
but
the
antientry
of
some
of
the
buildings
as
we
passed
along.
The
night
before,
however,
we
had
seen
enough
to
make
us
regret
this.
The
minster
stands
at
the
edge
of
a
hill
overlooking
an
immense
plain.
The
country
very
flat
as
we
went
along;
the
day
mended.
We
went
to
see
the
outside
of
the
minster
while
the
passengers
were
dining
at
Peterborough;
the
west
end
very
grand....
On
Thursday
morning,
29th,
we
arrived
in
London.
Wm.
left
me
at
the
Sun....
After
various
troubles
and
disasters,
we
left
London
on
Saturday
morning
at
half-past
five
or
six,
the
31st
of
July.
We
mounted
the
Dover
coach
at
Charing
Cross.
It
was
a
beautiful
morning.
The
city,
St.
Paul's,
with
the
river,
and
a
multitude
of
little
boats,
made
a
most
beautiful
sight
as
we
crossed
Westminster
Bridge.
The
houses
were
not
overhung
by
their
cloud
of
smoke,
and
they
were
spread
out
endlessly,
yet
the
sun
shone
so
brightly,
with
such
a
fierce
light,
that
there
was
even
something
like
the
purity
of
one
of
nature's
own
grand
spectacles.[72]
[Footnote
72:
Compare
the
sonnet
Composed
upon
Westminster
Bridge,
September
3,
1802,
in
vol.
ii.
p.
328.--ED.]
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