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Title: Notices of the proceedings at the meetings of the members of the Royal Institution of Great Britain with abstracts of the discourses
Year: 1851 (1850s)
Authors: Royal Institution of Great Britain
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Publisher: London : William Clowes and Sons
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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eing under the impression of being in a desertedcity. My First Walk through the City. It is generally on the first day that we catch the most character-istic traits, or at any rate the most salient features strike our imagina-tion. When our perceptive powers are still fresh, they are mostinfluenced by little peculiarities. After breakfast I go out for a stroll, and find the palace gate infront of me, outside which some soldiers are standing. Beyond itstretches a long street towards which I turn. This is the same streetwhich yesterday resembled a vast graveyard. The houses now standopen, as the wooden wall, looking on the street, has been removed.There are a considerable number of shops, but small and mean,displaying no wares that attract my attention. The cabinet makersmake the best show, consisting of small chests, with brass ornament-ation, having large polished locks. These are no less quaint thanthey are tasteful. They seem to sell well, for in a whole row I can see nothing else..
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1904.) on First Impressions of Seoul. 503 There is also no lack of seeds, but the baskets do not offer a quarterof the variety of a Chinese grocery. I do not thiuk I saw any moreshops, at least any that I remarked. They seemed small and empty,never more than a couple of customers in the shop. What attracted especially my attention was the large number ofsentry-boxes. Every five or ten yards you came across a box with astubby black, red and yellow soldier inside, armed! No matter where I turn there are sentry-boxes everywhere, to theright, to the left, in front and behind me. Can it be a fact that awhole army is required to keep this little folk in order ? Street Life. Xo sooner had I put this question to myself than I perceive adisturbance. Some coolies carrying vegetables engaged in a battleroyal, and two boys pitching into each other. But the private standsthere unmoved. His look seems rather to approve than condemn.He is evidently not intended to keep the peace; this does not seemp

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