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Excerpt from England and Wales IT was by the Birmingham Down Train that I ventured to take my first timid steps into the English world. Down Trains are those that leave London, while those that proceed towards the metropolis are called Up Trains. It is the same in most countries. The capital city of a nation seems to be always looked upon as occupy ing a more elevated position than the rest of the country; as standing high up on a kind of moral mountain. It may sound somewhat strangely to talk of solitude in a Birmingham down train; yet, with hundreds of human beings, before me and behind me, in the same suite of carriages, there I sat quite alone and perhaps in no other situation does a man feel so entirely alone. He sees no one but himself, cannot change his place or arrest his ra. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.