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.
