eight o'clock in the evening
Nothing can be more luxurious than a first class carriage . The floors are nicely carpeted , the seats and backs are all stuffed ; each seat is a very nice easy chair . You can sleep in them almost as well as in a bed ; but these carriages are very expensive ; and on this account many of the gentry take those of the second class , hard as they are . We arrived at Glasgow at eight o'clock in the evening , and were unfortunate enough to have a driver to the vehicle we took , who did not know where the Observatory was . We knew that it was three miles from the city , and not much more . We were advised by a gentleman , who was in the same railroad box with us , to take a noddy , or a minibus , to the Observatory . What these things were , of course , we could only guess , and we did not care much , so we could only get out of our wooden box .