The under folds crimson and glowing yellow from the flames below, sparks flying up like rocket stars.

A petroleum store caught, and the flames ran about in rivers, and above all the steel blue moon shone through the rents of the rolling vapour, and the stars with an intensity of brilliant calm such as we never see in England.

It was a night to be eternally remembered." A great many Irish families were made homeless by this fire, and Froude subscribed seven hundred dollars for their relief, thereby encouraging the rumour that he was in the pay of the British Minister whom he disliked and distrusted most.

Froude's final view of America and Americans was in some respects less favourable than his first impressions.

He was struck by the difference between their public and private treatment of himself, between their conversation and the articles in their press.