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Mrs. Samuel Leeds cookbook and travel diary, 1856

Journal Entry 9

June 3rd  Stiff with yesterday exercise, I went to Birkenhead, a city opposite Liverpool, with some 25,000 inhabitants.
The boats start from the landing stage. This stage is a large floating dock, at which, all passengers arriving by water are landed. It is connected to the land by two bridges.  It's existence is rendered necessary but the great rise and fall of the tides. 
A word about the ferry boats. What ugly little black things they are! With such contracted dismal cabins as force the passengers to take a deck passage for comfort's sake. Perhaps their being sharp at both ends helps them to move more easily when running against the 5 knot current of this dirty muddy stream called Mersey. Of a truth the quality of mercy is not strained. But as to Birkenhead. It is a pleasant place with many pretty villas, but chiefly celebrated for its lovely park of 185 acres beautifully laid out in hill and dale

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June 3rd Stiff with yesterday exercise, I went to Birkenhead, a city opposite Liverpool, with some 25,000 inhabitants. The boats start from the landing stage. This stage is a large floating dock, at which, all passengers arriving by water are landed. It is connected to the land by two bridges. It's existence is rendered necessary but the great rise and fall of the tides. A word about the ferry boats. What ugly little black things they are! With such contracted dismal cabins as force the passengers to take a deck passage for comfort's sake. Perhaps their being sharp at both ends helps them to move more easily when running against the 5 knot current of this dirty muddy stream called Mersey. Of a truth the quality of mercy is not strained. But as to Birkenhead. It is a pleasant place with many pretty villas, but chiefly celebrated for its lovely park of 185 acres beautifully laid out in hill and dale