CONTENTS.

LETTER I.

TEXAS TO NEW YORK-STEAMER VANDERBILT-THE PASSENGERS-
ICEBERGS-LANDING IN ENGLAND-FIRST IMPRESSIONS-LONDON-
CRYSTAL PALACE-VOYAGE TO FRANCE-VALLEY OF THE SEINE-
PARIS-THE FRENCH ARMY.

LETTER II.

THE FETE DAYS-SCENES IN PARIS-THE ILLUMINATION AND FIRE

WORKS-DEPARTURE FROM PARIS-NORTH OF FRANCE-BELGIUM-

SWITZERLAND-ITS MOUNTAINS, LAKES, AND SCENERY-GENEVA—

THE ALPS-SIMPLON PASS-FIRST VIEW OF ITALY-MILAN-MAGENTA

AND SOLFERINO-VERONA-VENICE-ITS SCENES AND ASSOCIATIONS

-PADUA-THE APPENNINES.

LETTER IV.

FLORENCE GALILEO, MICHEL ANGELO, AND RAPHAEL-GALLERIES
OF ART-PITTI PALACE CASCINC-PISA-LEGHORN-VOYAGE TO

ROME-THE ETERNAL CITY-ROMAN RUINS MODERN ROME-THE
CHURCHES AND PALACES-CATHOLIC FETE DAY-THE POPE-ANTO-
NELLA.

LETTER V.

BAY AND CITY OF NAPLES-HERCULANEUM POMPEII-CURIOSITIES

EXCAVATIONS FROM POMPEII--ASCENT OF MOUNT VESUVIUS-THE GREAT

CRATER-DEPARTURE FROM NAPLES-STROMBOLI-SICILY-MT. ETNA

-IONION ISLANDS-HARBOR OF PIRÆUS-CLASSIC GROUND.

ANCIENT

ATHENS-HISTORIC ASSOCIATIONS-MARS HILL-THE ACROPOLIS-
TEMPLES-MODERN ATHENS THE INHABITANTS-PLAINS
AND SITE OF ANCIENT TROY--THE TOMB OF ACHILLES-SEA OF MAR-
MORA-APPROACH TO CONSTANTINOPLE-THE CITY-BYZANTIUM-
TURKISH FETE DAY-THE SULTAN-DEPARTURE FROM CONSTANTINOPLE.

LETTER VII.

ORIENTAL SCENES-SMYRNA-THE

BAZAARS-PATMOS-RHODES

-CYPRUS-MOUNTAINS OF ISRAEL-BEYROUT-MOUNT LEBANON

MOUNT CARMEL-JOPPA-REMLAH-PLAIN OF SHARON-MOUNTAINS

OF JUDEA-FIRST VIEW OF THE HOLY CITY THE SACRED PLACES

ABOUT JERUSALEM.

DEPARTURE FROM JERUSALEM-MOUNT OLIVET-BETHANY-TOMB

OF LAZARUS--HILLS OF JUDEA--SITE OF JERICHO-FOUNTAIN OF

ELISHA--THE VALLEY OF THE JORDAN--THE SACRED RIVER-THE

DEAD SEA AND ITS SURROUNDINGS-SAN SABA--BETHLEHEM-CHURCH

OF THE NATIVITY--RETURN TO JERUSALEM--THE JEWS--DEPARTURE

FROM JERUSALEM-PASSING SCENES IN ALEXANDRIA--THE VALLEY

OF THE NILE.

LETTER IX.

CROSSING THE DESERT THE RED SEA--VIEW OF MOUNT SINAI

-RETURN TO CAIRO-SCENES IN GRAND CAIRO--VIEW FROM THE

CITADEL--THE NILE--THE PYRAMIDS--THE SPHYNX-RETURN TO

CAIRO.

LETTER X.

MOSQUE OF MOHAMED ALI--MASSACRE OF THE MEMLUKES--SCENES

AND ASSOCIATIONS OF THE NILE-ALEXANDRIA-DEPARTURE FROM

EGYPT-THE STORM-THE ISLAND OF MALTA--THE KNIGHTS

MALTA-SARDINIA AND CORSICA--ARRIVAL AT MARSAILLES.

LETTER XI.

OF

THE

PARISIANS -PLEASURE

GROUNDS-BOIS

DE BOULOGNE-

THEATRES AND OPERA HOUSES-BOULEVARDS-CAFES--CHANGES IN

PARIS-THE CONDITION OF FRANCE-THE IMPERIAL FAMILY.

LETTER XII.

DEPARTURE FROM PARIS-HAVRE--LONDON--THE ROYAL FAMILY

-WINDSOR CASTLE-OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE--MANUFACTURING DIS-

TRICTS-EDINBURG-SCENERY ABOUT THE CITY--HOLLYROOD PALACE

-CALTON HILL-HISTORIC REMINISCENCES.

THE HIGHLANDS

LETTER XIII.

OF SCOTLAND--GLASGOW--IRELAND

AND THE

IRISH--LIVERPOOL-VOYAGE-ARRIVAL AT BOSTON--COMPARISONS.

Europe and the East.

LETTER I.

Paris, August, 1859.

DEAR B.:

You asked that you might share in part with me the pleasure of my wanderings, by receiving an occasional sketch of those things and scenes. in which I might be most interested, and here is the first instalment, in compliance with your request. If by this, and whatever may succeed, by the way, I add ought to your pleasure, I shall be amply rewarded for my trouble.

My letters will necessarily be written hurriedly, and when I am, as at present, surrounded by circumstances and scenes entirely new and strange to me; you need not therefore expect to