25–31 October 1847

Everything in England bespeaks an immense population. The buildings are on a scale of size and wealth out of all proportion to ours, the co- lossal masonry of the docks and of all the public to be accommodated by them, and to pay for them. So the manners of the people,' . . . The Englishman has thus a necessary talent of letting alone all that does not belong to him. They are physiognomically and constitutionally distinct from the Americans. They incline more to be large-bodied men ; they are stocky, and espe- cially the women seem to have that defect to their beauty; no tall slender girls of flowing shape, but stunted and stocky. . . .