. Eight journeys abroad. rival we found that therewas a concert in the Cathedral grounds and illumination ofthe Bishops palace, so of course we went at once. You canimagine how the great Cathedral and the cedars of Lebanon,looked in the artificial light, altho at there was still day-light. Such turf cannot be seen out of England, it is so fineand springs up like a velvet carpet. This morning we all went to service at 10 and the full 262 ENGLAND choir and the Bishop of Exeter and we ten Americans con-stituted the congregation, and we sat in the choir. The sing-ing and intoning were Hke fro
. Eight journeys abroad. rival we found that therewas a concert in the Cathedral grounds and illumination ofthe Bishops palace, so of course we went at once. You canimagine how the great Cathedral and the cedars of Lebanon,looked in the artificial light, altho at there was still day-light. Such turf cannot be seen out of England, it is so fineand springs up like a velvet carpet. This morning we all went to service at 10 and the full 262 ENGLAND choir and the Bishop of Exeter and we ten Americans con-stituted the congregation, and we sat in the choir. The sing-ing and intoning were Hke from angels and such fine fuguemusic. Then we were conducted all over the Cathedral. As soon as we came back, I had decided we would drive toStonehenge as it was a grey day and I wanted to see it undersuch a sky. So we were off again in a drag, and went by wayof Old Sarum, the ancient British camp, and afterwardsRoman, which was the beginning of Salisbury. Then we wentout to Amesbury and wandered around the old Abbey Church. LUNCH AT CARISBROOKE CASTLE AT EIGHT BELLS INN and a beautiful private park and quaint old houses. We onlyhad a few minutes for lunch at the George, and it was sogood, cold meats and salad and hot potatoes and a hot Goose-berry tart with cream. Frank was the last to get into thebrake with his mouth full and then we were off to of being on a low flat plain, it is on high rollingcountry, but bare and lull of little hillocks called barrows,which were Saxon burial places. The great stones are some-thing wonderful, looming up against the dark sky, the mystery 263 EIGHT JOURNEYS ABROAD of the ages, as there is no positive knowledge as to how theygot there when there is no appearance of stone, or what theywere put there for. Standing on the sacrificial altar and look-ing through between two great stones, one, situated at a littledistance, comes up directly in the middle and marks wherethe sun rises on the longest day of the year, June 21st. We drov
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