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and made the air reverberate in the enormous building. The minister passed behind us presently, and proceeded to the pulpit. He was dressed in a long white gownd with a band of red and one of black down his back, and was proceded and followed by an usher. I could only hear an occasional word of the sermon. It was near five o-clock by the time the service was over, so we set off at once for home, arriving after dark. Nov: 20th. Father and I bought, out of some of the money which George Ingersoll was so kind as to give me, an excellent set of mathematical instruments, made in Paris, for nine dollars & thirty seven cents. We got them at the corner of High and Stanhope Sts. Sunday Nov. 23rd. In the morning father & I set off up High street to explore in a new direction. It was a beautiful morning and many parts of the road put us in mind of our York turnpike. We passed many fine country seats and villas, or various architectural designs, including Italian and Grecian. Presently we 

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came to the village of Hampstead, a nice little town, and passing through it and walking on a while longer we finally found ourselves on Hampstead Heath, which is quite high ground & overlooks London finely, we had been rising from the time we left Stanhope Street. The surrounding ground is a waste, covered with gorse and fern. There are trees in places, but not many. On our way home we passed a new church, nearly finished, of Gothic design and built out of good stone. We admired it as much as anything for the workmanship, which is really very good indeed. As we had had a walk of about four miles up to the heath, and had returned a mile we found it was so late that we concluded to take an omnibus, which soon brought us home. After dinner we act off to [[ace?]] Highgate Cemetary. We first went up high street, and then branched off on a good way along this passing many very peculiar houses and cottages -