Peter Parley's visit to London - Tim And Angi

104 PETER PARLEY'S
thinking of once more crossing the Atlantic,
and returning to the enjoyment of his quiet
home, when one morning at breakfast, Major
Meadows announced that there was to be a
grand review in Hyde Park, on a scale of
such splendour, that Peter Parley must see
it before he left town.
" The day fortunately turned out one of
the most beautiful that could be conceived,
and the crowds of persons who assembled to
witness the grand military display, were
very great.
It was estimated by some of
the military officers, who are accustomed to
form pretty accurate notions of vast bodies of
men, that at eleven o'clock in the forenoon,
there were not less than two hundred thou-