517
Carisbrooke Castle, looking from Isle of Wight 519
Tennyson's House, Isle of Wight 521
The Needles, Isle of Wight 522

[Illustration: THE POTTERGATE, ALNWICK.]

ENGLAND, PICTURESQUE AND DESCRIPTIVE.

I.

LIVERPOOL WESTWARD TO THE WELSH COAST.

Liverpool--Birkenhead--Knowsley Hall--Chester--Cheshire--Eaton
Hall--Hawarden Castle--Bidston--Congleton--Beeston Castle--The
river Dee--Llangollen--Valle-Crucis Abbey--Dinas
Bran--Wynnstay--Pont Cysylltau--Chirk
Castle--Bangor-ys-Coed--Holt--Wrexham--The Sands o' Dee--North
Wales--Flint Castle--Rhuddlan Castle--Mold--Denbigh--St.
Asaph--Holywell--Powys Castle--The Menai
Strait--Anglesea--Beaumaris Castle--Bangor--Penrhyn Castle--Plas
Newydd--Caernarvon Castle--Ancient Segontium--Conway
Castle--Bettws-y-Coed--Mount Snowdon--Port Madoc--Coast of
Merioneth--Barmouth--St. Patrick's Causeway--Mawddach Vale--Cader
Idris--Dolgelly--Bala Lake--Aberystwith--Harlech Castle--Holyhead.

LIVERPOOL.

[Illustration: THE PERCH ROCK LIGHT.]

The American transatlantic tourist, after a week or more spent upon the
ocean, is usually glad to again see the land. After skirting the bold
Irish coast, and peeping into the pretty cove of Cork, with Queenstown
in the background, and passing the rocky headlands of Wales, the steamer
that brings him from America carefully enters the Mersey River. The
shores are low but picturesque as the tourist moves along the estuary
between the coasts of Lancashire and Cheshire, and passes the great
beacon standing up solitary and alone amid the waste of waters, the
Perch Rock Light off New Brighton on the Cheshire side. Thus he comes to
the world's greatest seaport--Liverpool--and the steamer finally drops
her anchor between the miles of docks that front the two cities,
Liverpool on the left and Birkenhead on the right. Forests of masts loom
up behind the great dock-walls, stretching far away on either bank,
while a fleet of arriving or departing steamers is anchored in a long
line in mid-channel. Odd-looking, low, black tugs, pouring out thick
smoke from double funnels, move over the water, and one of them takes
the passengers alongside the capacious structure a half mile long, built
on pontoons, so it can rise and fall with the tides, and known as the
Prince's Landing-S