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one of the most beautiful sights I ever beheld. The surf was dashing high up the huge rocks whose tops were covered with green grass & beautiful hills were towering one above another in the distance. The coast is very dangerous as it is very stormy there & ships are often blown upon the rocks. The government has built a great many splendid light-houses all along the coast & at night we could see their lights for miles & miles. We reached Queenstown at about midnight & a tug boat came out to take off the passengers that were to stop there. There was quite a bustle on board but it rained quite hard & I did not go on deck to see them off. The steamer immediately started across the Irish channel for Liverpool where we arrived at midnight the next night but did not go into the docks till the next morning. Before we reached Liverpool we passed down the Welch coast which was about as grand a sight as the Irish. I saw the place where the steamer "Royal Charles" was wrecked a few years ago & five hundred lives lost. There is a cemetery at the place & the government caused one of the spars of the wrecked steamer to be put up as a monument. We could distinctly see it as we passed by. The water in the Irish channel does not look like the ocean but has more of a green appearance. We got off the steamer at