SKETCHES

OF

THE STATE OF THE USEFUL ARTS,

AND OF

SOCIETY, SCENERY, &c. &c.

IN

GREAT-BRITAIN, FRANCE AND HOLLAND.

OR,

THE PRACTICAL TOURIST,

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

BY ZACHARIAH ALLEN.

BOSTON:

PUBLISHED BY CARTER, HENDEE & CO.

PROVIDENCE

A. S. BECKWITH & CO.

1833.

ENTERED according to the Act of Congress. in the year 1832, by Z. ALLEN, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, within and for the Rhode-Island District.

Cranston & Hammond, Printers, Providence, R. I.

CONTENTS OF VOL. II.

Excursion to France. Archbishop of Canterbury Dover. Shakspeare's

Cliff. Dover Castle. Bathing Carts. Wall Flowers.

Whitsuntide. Calais. Straits of Dover:

Paper Mill.

Page 12.

Situation of

24.

French Costume. Anecdote. Custom House Examination.
Calais. Passports. Precautions on entering a fortified City in the
night. Amiens. Deserted Manufactory.
Cathedral. Ancient

Buildings. Fortifications.

Mendicity. Journey to Paris. Unfenced Fields. Shepherds and Shep-

herdesses. Shepherds' Dogs. French Cottages and Peasants. Paris.

City Gates. Streets. French Hotels. Houses and Streets of Paris. 36.

System of Police. Roman Catholic Ceremonies. Holy-Water. Relics,

Images and Rosaries. Church Festivals. Religious Procession of King

and Ladies of Court. Altars in the Streets. The Host.

Gallery of the Louvre. Talma. Palace of the Tuileries. Gardens and

Pleasure Grounds. A Sunday in Paris. Amusements on Sunday. 60.

Garden of Tivoli. Russian Mountain. Sunday evening Theatres. A

Gaming House. Rouge et Noir. Palace of Justice. Chamber of

Deputies and of Peers. Palace of the Luxembourg. Street Musicians.

Foundling Hospital.

48.

72.

Catacombs of Paris. Medical Halls. Skeletons and Wax Preparations.

Pantheon. Shops and Coffee Houses of Paris. Taste for Mirrors and

Mirror Manufactory.

84.

Royal Library. Conservatory of Arts. Patent Office. Public Slaugh-

ter Houses. Theatres of Paris. Opera Dancers.
96.

Useful Arts. Print Works. Hours of Labor. Steam Power. St.

Dennis. Manufactory of Tapestry. Comparative cost of Fuel in Paris.

Cotton Mills. Cemetery of Pere La Chaise.
108.

Public Escort of the French King. Dress of French Soldiers. Paris

Fashions. Nurseries for trees. Versailles. Boats on the Seine.

French Porcelain.

120.

Palace of St. Cloud. Public Shows of Paris. Fire Works. Maison de

Ville. Guillotine. Palais Royal.
133.

Garden of Plants. Wine Market.

Water Works of Versailles.

Diorama. Castle of Vincennes.

French Diligences and Boots of a Postillion. Water Works of Marli.

Agriculture.

145.

Painted Horse Collars. French Broadcloth Manufactory. Cotton Man-

ufactories of Rouen. Octroi. French Cotton Mills. Wages. Elboeuf

Cloth Mills,

156

Rouen. Public Festival. Wedding. Vesper Service. Cultivation of the

Poppy. Poppy Oil. Female Laborers. National Antipathies. Fortifi-

cations of Lille. Battering fortified Walls.
169

Convent converted into a Cotton Mill. Theological Students. Great Can-

non. Mechanics of Belgium. Ghent. Journey to Brussels. Farming

Operations. Public Squares and Fountains. Carved Pulpit. High Mass.

Court of Justice. Field of Waterloo.

181

193

Forest of Soigny. Battle of Waterloo. Mechlin. Antwerp.

Antwerp Cathedral and Docks. Steam Navigation in Holland. Flemish-
Artist. American Inventions. The Palace at the Hague. Passage in a

Canal Boat. Dutch Summer Houses.

206

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