Last words of Thomas Carlyle - Warburg Institute

—;EXCUKSION TO PAEIS 159and the other down ; the ah* was fine, the coantiybeautiful ; and so away we rolled under good auspicesagain.This rail, all but the terminus department, is managedin the English fashion, and carried us excellentlyalong. Country of bright waving green character,undulating, our course often along brooks, by pleasantold country hamlets ;many manufactures (spinning, Iguessed), but of most pleasant, clean, rustic character;wood enough on the hill sides, far too thick-planted ;stations not named, you can only guess where you'are. Junction ' by and by—from Havre probably—an open space without buildings as yet : an altogetherbeautiful, long, manufacturing village town to the leftnear by ; without smoke or dirt visible, trees enoughmight really be a model in Lancashire; the Glos'tershirerailway scenes offer nothing much superior Countryall made of chalk, as in England (to near Paris, Ithink) ; fine velvet grass, meadow culture mainlyfine old humble parish churches ; wood enough still,but twice or even thrice as thick as we allow it to be.Kouen in two hours : long tunnel, still stronger signsof cotton, bleaching, spinning, &c., then the big blacksteeples, thick heavy towers of cathedral and the restand here is Joan of Arc's last resting place and thescene of many singular things. Distinguished stillby the clearness of its air, the trees and gardens andpleasani meadow-looking places, which extended to thevery entrance. No smoke to speak of ; a lovely place