Note (return) — THINGS AND THOUGHTS IN EUROPE.
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Long before receiving this, you know that we were fortunate in the shortest voyage ever made across the Atlantic,I—only ten days and sixteen hours from Boston to Liverpool. The weather and all circumstances were propitious; and, if some of us were weak of head enough to suffer from the smell and jar of the machinery, or other ills by which the sea is wont to avenge itself on the arrogance of its vanquishers, we found no pity. The stewardess observed that she thought "any one tempted God Almighty who complained on a voyage where they did not even have to put guards to the dishes"!