There were six passengers on top.
"Aylesbury is a small town, and Stone is a very small village.

The driver stopped at what seemed to be a cultivated field, and told me that I was at my journey's end.

On looking down I saw a wheelbarrow near the fence, and I remembered that Mrs.Smyth had said that one would be waiting for our luggage, and I soon saw Mrs.Smyth and her daughter coming towards us.

It was a walk of about an eighth of a mile to the 'Lodge'-- a pleasant cottage surrounded by a beautiful garden.
"Admiral Smyth's family go to a little church seven hundred years old, standing in the midst of tombstones and surrounded by thatched cottages.
English scenery seems now (September) much like our Southern scenery in April--rich and lovely, but wanting mountains and water.

An English village could never be mistaken for an American one: the outline against the sky differs; a thatched cottage makes a very wavy line on the blue above.
"We find enough in St.John's Lodge, in the admiral's library, and in the society of the cultivated members of his family to interest us for a long time.
"The admiral himself is upwards of sixty years of age, noble-looking, loving a good joke, an antiquarian, and a good astronomer.