Letters Of A Traveller, By William Cullen Bryant















































































































 -  - Glasgow. - Its Annual Fair. - Its Public Statues. - The Free
Church. - Free Church College. - Odd Subject of a Sermon. - Alloway. - Burns's - Page 2
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- Glasgow. - Its Annual Fair.

- Its Public Statues.

- The Free Church. - Free Church College. - Odd Subject of a Sermon. - Alloway. - Burns's Monument. - The Doon. - The Sea. - Burns's Birthplace. - The River Ayr.

Letter XXV. - Voyage to Ireland. - Ailsa Craig. - County of Down. - County of Lowth. - Difference in the Appearance of the Inhabitants. - Peat-Diggers. - A Park. - Samples of different Races of Men. - Round Towers. - Valley of the Boyne. - Dublin. - Its Parks. - O'Connell. - The Repeal Question. - Wall, the Artist. - Exhibition of the Royal Hibernian Society.

Letter XXVI. - Lunatic Asylum at Hanwell. - Humanity and Skill. - Quiet Demeanor of the Patients. - Anecdotes of the Inmates. - The Corn-law Question. - Coleman's Improvement on the Piano.

Letter XXVII. - Changes in Paris. - Asphaltum Pavements. - New and Showy Buildings. - Suppression of Gaming-Houses. - Sunday Amusements. - Physical Degeneracy. - Vanderlyn's Picture of the Landing of Columbus.

Letter XXVIII. - A Journey through the Netherlands. - Brussels. - Waterloo. - Walloons and Flemings. - Antwerp. - Character of Flemish Art. - The Scheldt. - Rotterdam. - Country of Holland. - The Hague. - Scheveling. - Amsterdam. - Broek Saardam. - Utrecht.

Letter XXIX. - American Artists abroad. - Duesseldorf: Leutze. - German Painters. - Florence: Greenough, Powers, Gray, G. L. Brown. - Rome: H. K. Brown, Rossiter, Lang.

Letter XXX. - Buffalo. - The New Fort. - Leopold de Meyer. - Cleveland. - Detroit.

Letter XXXI. - Trip from Detroit to Mackinaw. - The Chippewa Tribe. - The River St. Clair. - Anecdote. - Chippewa Village. - Forts Huron and Saranac. - Bob Low Island. - Mackinaw.

Letter XXXII. - Journey from Detroit to Princeton. - Sheboygan. - Milwaukie. - Chicago. - A Plunge in the Canal. - Aspect of the Country.

Letter XXXIII. - Return to Chicago. - Prairie-Hens. - Prairie Lands of Lee County. - Rock River District.

Letter XXXIV. - Voyage to Sault Ste. Marie. - Little Fort. - Indian Women gathering Rice. - Southport. - Island of St. Joseph. - Muddy Lake. - Girdled Trees.

Letter XXXV. - Falls of the St. Mary. - Masses of Copper and Silver. - Drunken Indians. - Descent of the Rapids. - Warehouses of the Hudson Bay Company. - Canadian Half-breeds. - La Maison de Pierre. - Tanner the Murderer.

Letter XXXVI. - Indians at the Sanlt. - Madeleine Island. - Indian Dancing-girls. - Methodist Indians. - Indian Families. - Return to Mackinaw.

Letter XXXVII. - The Straits of Mackinaw. - American Fur Company. - Peculiar Boats. - British Landing. - Battle-field. - Old Mission Church. - Arched Rock.

Letter XXXVIII. - Excursion to Southern New Jersey. - Easton. - The Delaware. - The Water Gap. - Bite of a Copper-head snake.

Letter XXXIX. - The Banks of the Pocano. - Deer in the Laurel Swamps. - Cherry Hollow. - The Wind Gap. - Nazareth. - Moravian Burying Grounds. - A Pennsylvania German.

Letter XL. - Paint on Brick Houses. - The New City of Lawrence. - Oak Grove.

Letter XLI. - Islands of Casco Bay. - The Building of Ships. - A Seal in the Kennebeck. - Augusta. - Multitude of Lakes. - Appearances of Thrift.

Letter XLII. - The Willey House. - Mount Washington. - Scenery of the White Mountains. - A Hen Mother of Puppies.

Letter XLIII. - Passage to Savannah. - Passengers in the Steamer. - Old Times in Connecticut. - Cape Hatteras. - Savannah. - Bonaventure. - Charleston. - Augusta.

Letter XLIV. - Southern Cotton Mills. - Factory Girls. - Somerville.

Letter XLV. - The Florida Coast. - Key West. - Dangerous Navigation. - A Hurricane and Flood. - Havana.

Letter XLVI. - Women of Cuba. - Airy Rooms. - Devotion of the Women. - Good Friday. - Cascarilla. - Cemetery of Havana. - Funerals. - Cock-fighting. - Valla de Gallos. - A Masked Ball.

Letter XLVII. - Scenery of Cuba. - Its Trees. - Sweet-Potato Plantation. - San Antonio de los Barios. - Black and Red Soil of Cuba. - A Coffee Estate. - Attire of the Cubans.

Letter XLVIII. - Matanzas. - Valley of Yumuri. - Cumbre. - Sugar Estate. - Process of its Manufacture.

Letter XLIX. - Negroes in Cuba. - Execution by the Garrote. - Slave Market. - African, Indian, and Asiatic Slaves. - Free Blacks in Cuba. - Annexation of Cuba to the United States.

Letter L. - English Exhibitions of Works of Art. - The Society of Arts. - Royal Academy. - Jews in Parliament.

Letter LI. - A Visit to the Shetland Isles. - Highland Fishermen. - Lerwick. - Church-goers in Shetland. - Habitations of the Islanders. - The Noup of the Noss. - Sheep and Ponies. - Pictish Castle. - The Zetlanders. - A Gale in the North Sea. - Cathedral of St. Magnus. - Wick.

Letter LII. - Europe under the Bayonet. - Uses of the State of Siege. - The Hungarians. - Bavaria. - St. Gall. - Zurich. - Target-shooting. - France. - French Expedition to Rome.

Letter LIII. - Volterra; its Desolation. - The Balza. - Etruscan Remains. - Fortress of Volterra.

Letters of a Traveller.

Letter I.

First Impressions of an American in France.

Paris, _August_ 9, 1834.

Since we first landed in France, every step of our journey has reminded us that we were in an old country. Every thing we saw spoke of the past, of an antiquity without limit; everywhere our eyes rested on the handiwork of those who had been dead for ages, and we were in the midst of customs which they had bequeathed to their descendants. The churches were so vast, so solid, so venerable, and time-eaten; the dwellings so gray, and of such antique architecture, and in the large towns, like Rouen, rose so high, and overhung with such quaint projections the narrow and cavernous streets; the thatched cots were so mossy and so green with grass! The very hills about them looked scarcely as old, for there was youth in their vegetation - their shrubs and flowers. The countrywomen wore such high caps, such long waists, and such short petticoats! - the fashion of bonnets is an innovation of yesterday, which they regard with scorn. We passed females riding on donkeys, the Old Testament beast of burden, with panniers on each side, as was the custom hundreds of years since. We saw ancient dames sitting at their doors with distaffs, twisting the thread by twirling the spindle between the thumb and finger, as they did in the days of Homer. A flock of sheep was grazing on the side of a hill; they were attended by a shepherd, and a brace of prick-eared dogs, which kept them from straying, as was done thousands of years ago. Speckled birds were hopping by the sides of the road; it was the magpie, the bird of ancient fable. Flocks of what I at first took for the crow of our country were stalking in the fields, or sailing in the air over the old elms; it was the rook, the bird made as classical by Addison as his cousin the raven by the Latin poets.

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