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Descent in a diving-bell. Obliging fire. College of Surgeons. The false mermaid.
The sagacious ourang-outang. Extraordinary recovery. The living skeleton.
Fortune. The desperate lover. Salthill. Stoke Park. Dropmore. Windsor
Castle. Eton. St. Leonard’s Hill. Windsor Park. Habits of George the Fourth.
The giraffe. Virginia Water. Lord and Lady H——. Character of Lord Byron.
Windsor Terrace. St. George’s Chapel. Day dreams. English promptitude.
Military men of England. Frogmore. Anecdote of Canning. Egham races.
Dwarf trees. Moonlight walk. Respect for the law.

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What a park should be. Horses. Lady ——. Hatfield and Burleigh. Doncaster
Races. Pomp in the country. Duke of Devonshire’s equipage. Madame de
Maintenon. Useless talents. York Minster. Library. Walk in the city. Skeleton
of a Roman lady. Clifford’s Tower. The county jail. Thieves’ wardrobe. Ascent.
Town-hall. Armorial bearings of citizens. Madame de Maintenon. Archbishop’s
palace and kitchen-garden. Singular absence of mind. Castle Howard.
Pictures. The three Mary’s. Painted memoirs. English habits. Bad climate.
Equine sagacity. Scarborough. The rock-bridge. Light-house on Flamborough-head.

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Whitby. What is remarkable in a Duke. The ruin. The Museum. Alum mines.
Lord Mulgrave’s castle and park. Singular accident. Fountain’s Abbey. Studley
Park. The Catacombs at Ripon. Harrowgate. The End of the World. The
old General. Aristocratical influence. Harewood park. Kennel. Horses.
Wooden curtains. Lord Harewood. Leeds. Reform in Parliament. Cloth manufactory.
Templenewsome. Rotherham. Disappointment. Wentworth House.
Portraits. Sheffield. Knives and scissars. Nottingham. Wild beasts. Lord Middleton’s
seat. St. Albans Abbey. Duke of Gloucester’s tomb. Return to London.

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Excursion to Brighton. Arundel Castle. Petworth House. Portraits. Hotspur’s
sword. Old ‘Whalebone.’ The fortunate duchess. ‘Prognostica.’ Continuation
of Don Juan. The year 2200. ‘Etourderie.’ Rules of behaviour. English
politicians. Charles Kemble’s Falstaff. License of English actors. Young as
Hotspur. German and English stage. Wonders of the age. ‘Flirtation.’ Singular
ball. Macready’s Macbeth. Thoughts on the tragedy of Macbeth. Der
Freischutz. ‘Liaison’ with a mouse. Street mystifiers. Nights in London. Visit
to Woolmers. Ball at Hatfield. Pansanger. Grand Signor. Persian valuables.

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Billy, the Rat-destroyer. English amusements. The newest Roscius. Fancy. Freewill.
Original sin. Austrian philosophy. Colours of the days. Friday. Don
Miguel. American Anecdote. English ‘tournure.’ Unpleasant Christmas-box.
Portuguese etiquette. Ludicrous incident in the theatre. English flints. Parties in
honour of the infant. Baroness F——. The charming aid-de-camp. Anecdote
told by Sir Walter Scott. B—— Society. Disadvantages of a sandy soil. India
House. Tippoo Saib’s amusements. Shawls. Ride in the Steam-carriage. Ride
in a carriage drawn by kites. Fox-hunt. Clerical fox-hunters. Thoughts on
death. Recommendation of Blotting-paper. The Atlas of life. Bellows. Advantages
of illness. Instruction. Convalesence.

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The Thelluson will. The Dandy in the back settlements of America. English justice.
A Chancery suit. Dramatic juggler. Fall of the Brunswick theatre. Party at Mr.
Peel’s. ‘Chapeau de Paille.’ Mr. Carr’s collection of pictures. General Lejeune’s
battle-pieces. The courtier. Mina, Arguelles, and Valdez. On the acting and
translating of Shakspeare. Kean, Young, and Kemble, in Othello. Character
of Iago.

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Aristocracy and liberalism united in one person. Fête at the Duchess of ——’s.
Wonderful tale of Mr. H——. Toads. The menagerie in Regent’s Park. Marshal
Beresford. Rural dinner in H—— Lodge. Zoological Garden. The patient
witling. Uncomfortable customs. Dinner at H—— Lodge. Sir Walter Scott;
his appearance and conversation. A charming girl. Tailors, butchers, and fishmongers.
Crockford’s. Spring-festival. Rural pleasures. Musical indigestion.
Strawberry-Hill, the seat of Horace Walpole. German customs in England.
Epsom races. Soirée at the King’s. Historical portraits. Paintings in watercolour.
The little paradise. The branch from Birnam Wood. Bonneau the Second.
The Empress Josephine’s Fortune-telling book. Introduction to the
Duchess of Sachsen Meiningen. The Pigeon Club. The aquatic theatre. The
Doomed. The new Ninon de l’Enclos. Another déjeuné champetre. The two
Marshals.

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