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By dockyards laden with iron, the lurid light of coal-barges, furnace fires lit by gasworks and the sulphurous path of cinders, chimneys uncoiling serpentine plumes of smoke and soot. Witness the dismal prospect of derelict warehouses and decrepit scaffolding, where pleasure has gone and labour has come. Railroads the veins of this land, the enervation of dreams caught in the violent passage of conquering engines; the trembling harp of telegraphic dispatch wires in the wind, the discordant shriek of the electric bell.
