There is one thing here worthy of notice ;
it is the mode of delivering baggage. A
paper number is given you, and a duplicate
placed on your trunk. A hollow square is
formed around the baggage-car by a frame*
work of pigeon-holes, like the boxes in a
post-office, each large enough to receive a
trunk. These bear numbers corresponding
to the marks on the baggage, and visible on
both sides ; and as each trunk is placed un-
der its own number, the passenger finds it im-
mediately. At nine p. m. take the train for
Shoreham, the seaport of Brighton. The
cars stop on an embankment ten feet above
the shore, and within a few feet of the edge.
The embankment is faintly lighted, and haa



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