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                    <title>Saturday 28th June 1879</title>
                    <description>Pleasant day and warmer.  Ship rolled considerably during the night.  A good nights rest is something to look forward to.  Sighted  Cape Clear at one oclock.  A wild rugged coast with plenty of lighthouses about.  Passed several ships.  Entered Queenstown harbour about 6.  Dropped mails and several passengers remained there no longer than we could help and after an hours delay steamed on</description>
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                    <title>Friday 27th June 1879</title>
                    <description>A showery windy and somewhat cold day.  A beam sea on causing the ship to roll considerably at times.  Hard work walking about.  One or two of the passengers had croppers.  Read Reades  A Woman Hater.  Got through a lot of novels since I came on board.  Finished the Conquest of Peru  it is very interesting.</description>
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                    <title>Thursday 26th June 1879</title>
                    <description>Another cold raw day.  What between the noise going on for some cause or other and the rolling of the ship from the wind having gone ahead I did not get much sleep last night.  Saw one or two ships in the horizon.  All sorts of games going on onboard.  There was a pretty heavy shower of rain while we were at dinner.  Had some more games of shuffle board in the evening same sides as yesterday.  L</description>
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                    <title>Wednesday 25th June 1879</title>
                    <description>Cold cloudy day.  Some sea on.  Passed a Brigantine under full sail.  Borrowed a book Prescotts Conquest of Peru out of the library.  Had a game of shuffle board after dinner.  Gore and I against two other men.  Cold evening.  Wind getting round ahead.  Lat 49.10  Long 34.40.  Days run 335 miles.</description>
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                    <title>Tuesday 24th June 1879</title>
                    <description>Dull day.  Fog cleared away about 9 oclock.  The Captain was able to take an observation.  For the last two days we have been going by dead reckonings.  Sea and wind getting up.  A good many sails set.  Ship going very steadily.  Some poor music and singing in the evening.  Cold day.  Lat 46.48  Long 42.13.  Days run 327 miles.</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceans-and-Seas/Atlantic/blog-622945.html</link>
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                    <title>Monday 23rd June 1879</title>
                    <description>Woke with a headache and had it more or less all day.  Did not get up till after breakfast.  Still foggy but not quite so thick.  Sea very calm.  Had some singing and music in the evening.  Lat 43.45  Long 48.37.  Days run 321 miles.</description>
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                    <title>Sunday 22nd June 1879</title>
                    <description>Fog horn going all night and all thro the day at intervals.  No observation could be taken.  Had no service tho there were one or two clergy on board  one is an awful guy.  Moody  Sankey hymns in the evening.  Lat 42.34  Long 55.43.  Days run 318 miles.</description>
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                    <title>Saturday 21st June 1879</title>
                    <description>Sea calm rained early in the morning.  A low thick fog about from Newfoundland Banks.  Had to sound fog horn.  Fog went away about one or two.  Lay down in the afternoon with headache.  Went without dinner.  Early to bed.  Lat 41.44  Long 62.45.  Days run 301 miles.</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceans-and-Seas/Atlantic/blog-622942.html</link>
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                    <title>Friday 20th June 1879</title>
                    <description>Fine but very cold day.  Wind easterly.  Passed a barque in full sail and overtook the State of Pennsylvania one of the national line of steamers  it left New York 6 hours before us.  Saw two or three other ships in the distance.  Finished Lorna Doone a very interesting tale but a little too long.  Very cold evening.  Turned in early.  Lat 43.48  Long 67.17.  Run from Sandy Hook 216 mi</description>
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                    <title>Thursday 19th June 1879</title>
                    <description>Fine warm day.  Went up to the Central Park and walked about there for over an hour.  It is very pretty naturally and it has been made the most of by artificial improvements by bridges lakes etc.  Went by elevated railway to the post office to enquire for letters but there were none.  Walked up Wall St and elsewhere.  Came back to a hasty lunch.  Paid the bill 25.15c and at a little after 1.30</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceans-and-Seas/Atlantic/blog-622926.html</link>
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                    <title>Wednesday 18th June 1879</title>
                    <description>Fine morning.  Went by elevated railway townwards as far as it would take us and then got out and walked to a park overlooking the river at one end of the town.  Walked about thro a lot of streets.  Bought some photos of New York the Hudson River and Lake George.  W and I came back elevated to lunch leaving Gore in the city.  Did not go out in the afternoon which was wet.  G and W went to</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/New-York/New-York/Manhattan/blog-621363.html</link>
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                    <title>Gilbert  Sullivan's "HMS Pinafore" and the Madison Square Theatre  see blog entry 17th June</title>
                    <description>HMS Pinafore opened in London in May 1878 after the diarist left for Australia and became such a success that numerous unauthorised and modified versions began to be played in America.  Some of these versions took many forms including actual performances on boats allnegro versions burlesque allCatholic versions and productions with a cast of children.  At that time there was no contr</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/New-York/New-York/Manhattan/blog-621336.html</link>
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                    <title>Tuesday 17th June 1879</title>
                    <description>Fine pleasant day.  Went down by bus to Madison Square to call upon a friend of Ws Mr York who is stopping at the Fifth Avenue Hotel.  He was however out.  He was one of the passengers of the City of New York.  Knocked about the Broadway and other places.  In the afternoon went alone to Union Square to get some photos of the lakes but the shop I was told to go to had not got any.  </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/New-York/New-York/Manhattan/blog-621332.html</link>
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                    <title>The Gangs of New York 1879</title>
                    <description>Starting in around 1820 the story of the New York gangs takes place in the cellars of old breweries turned into Negro tenements in a seedy threestory New York city filled with gangs of thugs like the Swamp Angels who would swarm out of labyrinthine sewers on marauding expeditions  gangs of cutthroats like the Daybreak Boys who recruited murderers of ten or eleven years old  brazen giants li</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/New-York/New-York/Manhattan/blog-620336.html</link>
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                    <title>Monday 16th June 1879</title>
                    <description>Fine bright and pleasant day.  Took one of the buses that run down Fifth Avenue trams not being allowed either in the Broadway or on Fifth Avenue.  Went down to the business part of the town.  Booked our passage for Thursday next 19th inst.  Went to the General Post Office and about the Broadway and Wall St.  Met Mr Brooks  he leaves on Wednesday.  Came back by elevated railway.  A very e</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/New-York/New-York/Manhattan/blog-620324.html</link>
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                    <title>Sunday 15th June 1879</title>
                    <description>Warm close day.  Had a late breakfast and were very badly waited on  plenty of waiters looking on.  Met Kronheimmer who is staying here.  All four of us strolled down to Central Park which is not far from here.  Took a drive round it for half an hour or so 25c a head.  It is a pretty place.  Came back and had a slight lunch at 2 oclock.  Stopped in our rooms all afternoon  heavy rain. </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/New-York/New-York/Manhattan/blog-620075.html</link>
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                    <title>Saturday 14th June 1879</title>
                    <description>Up by 6 tho did not breakfast till 7.30.  Paid bill 1.75c.  Not a first class hotel.  Walked to the boat which was pretty crowded.  Started at 8.30 and went down the Hudson River.  guide book for what is to be seen.   Certainly it is a trip worth taking for the scenery is in places lovely.  Met several steamers towing a crowd of barges steamers full of people and sailing boats of all</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/New-York/New-York/blog-619643.html</link>
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                    <title>Friday 13th June 1879</title>
                    <description>Up a little before 5.  Had breakfast a poor one.  Paid hotel bill 2.50c.  Went by stage  a conveyance holding 8 to Glens Falls a town 8 miles off.  The road was pretty and interesting. Four battles had been fought all round about between the French and English and later on between the Americans and English.  Arrived at Glens Falls after an hour and a quarters drive.  A fine town  al</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/New-York/Albany/blog-619622.html</link>
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                    <title>Thursday 12th June 1879</title>
                    <description>Dull cloudy morning.  Up by 5.30 had an early breakfast and left Plattsburg by the 6.50 boat.  Accommodation in the hotel middling but meals good and plentiful.  Bill 3.  Went up Lake Champlain and called at several places first one side then the other.  In some parts the scenery was very fine and all of it was pretty.  It was unfortunately dull and a strong cold wind made things worse.  Arr</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/New-York/Newark/blog-619334.html</link>
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                    <title>Wednesday 11th June 1879</title>
                    <description>Wet morning.  Turned out a fine hot day.  Arrived in Montreal between 5 and 6.  As soon as we could we drove to the Railway depot the train for Plattsburgh leaving at 7.15.  After having our heavy luggage attended to by the Custom House Officer who was civil enough we got a hasty stand up breakfast.  Crossed the St Lawrence by a fine tubular bridge.  The country on the other side is mostly fla</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/New-York/Plattsburgh/blog-619328.html</link>
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