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Cabinet--Steam Power, &c.
LETTER XVII.
Royal Polytechnic Institution.--Lectures.--Egyptian Hall.--Panorama of
Overland Route to California.--Exeter Hall Sermons.--Wyld's great
Globe.--Zoölogical Gardens.--Christ's Church Hospital; its Boys.
LETTER XVIII.
Windsor Castle; its History.--Interior of the Palace.--
Pictures.--Waterloo Chamber.--St. George's Chanel.--Royal
Tombs.--Edward IV.--Henry VIII.--Charles I., Discovery of his Body
in 1813, Account of the Appearance, &c.--Terraces of the Castle.--Eton
College.--Datchett.--Great Park.--Long Walk.--Celebrated
Trees.--Virginia Water.--Cumberland Lodge.--Frogmore.

LETTER XIX.
Sir John Soane's Museum, House, Antiquities, Pictures.--Hogarth's
"Rake's Progress," and the "Election."--Wonderful Economy of Room,
&c.--Greenwich; Hospital, Chapel, Paintings, and Statuary.--Queen's
Stables; Horses, Harness Room, State Carriage.--Soyer's Symposium;
Description of its Rooms.--Dinner there.
LETTER XX.
The Temple Church and its historical Associations.--Steamboat on
Thames.--View of St. Paul's from River.--St. Paul's Cathedral; its
Dome.--Statues: Johnson, Howard, Reynolds, Heber, West,
Nelson.--Ascent of the Dome and Cross.--View of London.
LETTER XXI.
Westminster Abbey.--Early History.--Associations.--Poet's
Corner.--Chapels.--Monuments and Effigies.--Coronation
Chairs.--Stone of Scone Statuary.--Sermon in Abbey by Lord John
Thynne.
LETTER XXII.
Hyde Park.--St. James's and Green Park.--Regent's Park.--Squares of
London.--Northumberland House.--Sion House.--St Margaret's
Church.--St. Martin's in-the-Fields.
LETTER XXIII.
Mission House.--Lord Mayor's Day.--Royal Exchange.--Bank of
England.--London Docks.--Covent Garden Market.
LETTER XXIV.
Rev. Dr. Murray.--Dover Castle.--Passage across the Channel.--
Calais.--St. Omer.--Douai.--Arras.--Amiens.--Clermont.--Paris.-- Hotel
Windsor.--A Mistake, and Loss of a Dinner.

LETTER XXV.
Gardens and Promenades.--Gayety.--Flowers.--Wrong
Drawing-room.--Notre Dame.--Interior.--Sacristy.--Robes and
Relics.--Hotel de Ville.--Louvre shut.--Paris by Moonlight.
LETTER XXVI.
Palais Royal.--Garden.--Gay Scene.--Passage d'Orleans.--House
opposite to which Henry IV. was assassinated by
Ravaillac.--Molière.--Marat and Charlotte Corday.--Palace of the
Luxembourg.--Paintings.--Gardens.-- Statuary.--Chapel.
LETTER XXVII
Hotel de Cluny; History, Associations, Interior, wonderful
Contents.--Julian's Palace of the Baths.--Mr. George Sumner.--Church
of St. Sulpice.--Statuary.--Ecclesiastical Fountain.--Bibliothèque St.
Geneviève.--Church of St. Etienne du Mont.--History.--Monuments of
Racine and Pascal.--Christening an Infant.--Church of St. Germain des
Pres, (oldest in Paris); its Restoration going on.--Tombs of Descartes,
Mabillon, Montfaucon, &c.
LETTER XXVIII.
Jardin des Plantes; Situation, History.--Cedar of Lebanon and
Palm-trees.--Menagerie.--Cuvier.--Museum of Comparative Anatomy,
&c.--Paris owes much to Henry IV., Louis XIV., Napoleon, and Louis
Philippe.--Pont Neuf.--St. Bartholomew's Massacre.--Bastile.--Column.
LETTER XXIX.
An amusing Fellow-countryman.--Père la
Chaise.--Monuments.--Abattoir. --Consul's Office; his numerous Calls.
LETTER XXX.
Cirque.--Amusements.--Champs
Elysées.--Hippodrome.--Arabs.--Sabbath kept in Parlor.

LETTER XXXI.
Pleasant Company.--Railroad to
Brussels.--Jemappes.--Mons.--Brussels; History.--Hotel de
Ville.--Cathedral Church of St. Gudule; its Monuments.--First
Communion.--Park.--Palace.--Hon. Mr. Bayard.
LETTER XXXII.
Lacework.--Money Matters.--An uncivil Banker.--Museum.--Paintings.
--Burgundian Library.--Manekin.--Botanical Garden.
LETTER XXXIII.
Excursion to Waterloo.--Hongomont.--Relics.--Belgian Mound and
Lion.--Ivy from Waterloo for Mr. J.P. Hall.--Church.--King Leopold.
LETTER XXXIV.
Laeken.--Vilvorde.--Mechlin, or Mallnes.--Antwerp; History.--Place
Verte.--Statue of Rubens.--Cathedral of Notre Dame.--Interior
Pulpit.--Pictures by Rubens.--Tower of the Church.--Quentin Matsys's
fine old Houses.
LETTER XXXV.
St. James's Church.--Tomb of Rubens.--Paintings by Rubens and
Jordaens.--Vandyke.--Mount Calvary.--Monk of La
Trappe.--Museum.--Chair of Rubens; his Pictures.--Other great Works
of Art.--St. Andrew's Church.--Bourse.--Mr. Vesey, U.S. Consul.
LETTER XXXVI.
Dock Yards at Antwerp.--Steamboat Passage on the
Scheldt.--Dort.--Lost Villages.--Bergen op Zoom.--Van
Speyk.--Rotterdam.--Erasmus.--Delft. --Hague.--Hon. George Folsom;
his Kindness.--Scheveningen.--Museum. --Japanese
Curiosities.--Historical Curiosities.--Gallery of Pictures. --Rembrandt,
Paul Potter, Gerard Dow, &c.--King's Palace.--Brimenhoff. --De

Witt.--Bosch.--John Adams's House.
LETTER XXXVII.
Dunes.--Leyden; History.--Harlem.--Church of St. Bavon;
Organ.--Coster.--Flower Gardens.--Palace of late King.--Picture
Gallery.--Exhibition of Pictures by living Artists.--Amsterdam.
LETTER XXXVIII.
Mr. J.G. Schwartze.--Stadhuis.--Churches.--Jews.--Picture
Gallery.--Dutch School.--Columbus before the Council.--Artists' Club.
LETTER XXXIX.
Utrecht.--Lobith.--Ruhrort.--Meet with Americans on Return from the
East.--Cologne; History.--Cathedral.--Three Kings.--Relics.--St. Peter's
Church.--Crucifixion of Peter, by Rubens.--Champagne for America.
LETTER XL.
The
Rhine.--Bonn.--Drachenfels.--Godesberg.--Rolandseck.--Oberwinter.
--Okenfels.--Castle Reineck.--Neuwied.--A Raft.--Castle of
Sain.--Ehrenbreitstein.--Coblentz.
LETTER XLI.
Coblentz.--The Moselle.--Excursion to Stolzenfels.--Curiosities.--Fine
View.--Boat up to Mayence.--The Brothers.--Rheinfels.--Lurley
Rock.--Seven Sisters.--Pfalz.--The Rheingau.--Falkenberg.--Rheinstein.
--Assmanshausen.--Ehrenfels.--Mausetherm.--Bingen.--Geisenheim.
--Johannisberg.--Erbach.--Biberich.--Mayence.--John Guttemberg's
Statue--Austrian Troops.--An English Nobleman.
LETTER XLII.
Frankfort.--The Römer; its Portraits of the Emperors.--Mr. Bethman's
Gallery of Statuary.--Ariadne.--Jews' Quarters.--Darmstadt.--The

Bergstrasse.--Heidelberg.--Castle.--Baden.--Kehl.--Strasburg.
LETTER XLIII.
Cathedral; Its History; Interior Clock.--St. Thomas's Church.--Kleber's
Tomb.
LETTER XLIV.
Vosges Mountains.--Vineyards.--Colmar.--Mühlhausen.--Basle.--Black
Forest.--United States Consul, Mr. Burchardt.--Cathedral.--Tomb of
Erasmus.--Chapter House.--Holbein Gallery.--University.--Library.
--MSS.--St. Jacob.--Tea Party.
LETTER XLV.
Moutiers Valley.--Sublime Scenery.--Domach.--Arch.--Roman
Antiquities.--Berne.--Mechanical Clock.--Cathedral; Organ, Choir,
Bears.--Lausanne.
LETTER XLVI.
Mountain Scenery.--Hotel Gibbon.--Episcopal Church.--Signal.--Hotel
de Ville, and its kind Inhabitants.--Cathedral; its History.--Steamboat to
Vevay.--Castle of Chillon.--St. Martin's Church and the
Regicides.--Geneva.--Cathedral.--Museum.--Calvin's
MBS.--D'Aubigné.--Gaussen--Malan.--Evangelical Association; its
Anniversary.--Count George.--Soirée.--Mr. Delorme.--The
Salève.--Savoy.--Rousseau's Island.
LETTER XLVII.
Diligence for Dijon.--Fine Scenery.--Dijon; History.--Railroad to
Paris.--Sens.--Cathedral.--Fontainebleau.
LETTER XLVIII.
Methodist Chapel.--Madeline.--Pantheon.--Louvre, open.--Statuary and
Paintings.--Versailles.--Statuary.--Series of National

Paintings.--Portraits of distinguished Men.--Apartments.--Gardens and
Fountains.--Grand and Petit Trianon.--Passy.--St. Cloud.
LETTER XLIX.
Glass Depot--American Friends.--Good Intentions.--Hospital des
Invalides.--Garden of the Tulleries; its Scenery.--Triumphal
Arch.--Chapel of St. Ferdinand.--National Library.--A Tradesman's
Memory.
LETTER L.
Calais; its Recollections.--Rough Passage of the Channel.--Dover.--Mr.
Peabody's Entertainment on the Fourth of July
described.--Company.--A patriotic Act.
LETTER LI.
Entertainment at the Belgian Minister's.--Young Nobility.--A noble
Boy.--Craven Chapel.--Slavery.--Exhibition.--Pauper Labor.--Need of a
Tariff.
LETTER LII.
Kind Friends at Bristol,--Weston Super Mare.--Museum of Baptist
College.--Highbury Chapel.--Old Houses of Bristol.--Fine Churches.
LETTER LIII.
River Avon.--Wye.--Chepstow.--St. Aryan's.--Wynd Cliff.--Glorious
Scenery.--Tintern Abbey; its History.--Ragland Castle;
Appearance.--Marquis of Worcester.--Chopstow Castle.--Henry
Marten.--Defence of the Parliamentary Party.--Severn River.--Old
Passage.--Henbury.--Blaize Castle.--Birthday Lines.
LETTER LIV.
Leave Bristol.--Berkeley.--Cheltenham.--Birmingham;
Manufactories.--Rev. John Angell James.--Mr.

Vanwart.--Liverpool.--Chester; its Antiquity.--Cathedral.--Rows and
Pillars.--Englishmen and Americans have much in Common.--Royal
Agricultural Exhibition at Windsor.
LETTER LV.
Passage Home in the Steamer Atlantic.--Claims of the Collins
Line.--Lessons taught by Travel in other Lands.--Our
Comforts.--Excellent Character of many of the English
Nobility.--Queen Victoria and Prince Albert.--Prospect of Affairs in
Europe.--Popery as seen in her proper Territories.

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