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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. Archibishop of Canterbury? Dover. Shakspeare's
Cliff. Dover Castle. Bathing Carts. Wall Flowers. Paper Mill.
Whitsuntide. Calais. Straits of Dover:
Page 12.
French Costume. Anecdote. Custom House Examination. Situation of
Calais. Passports. Precautions on entering a fortified City in the night. Amiens. Deserted Manufactory.
Cathedral. Ancient
Buildings. Fortifications.
24.
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.
48.
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.
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. Versaille Boats on the Seine.
French Porcelain. Water Works of Versailles.
120.
Palace of St. Cloud. Public Shows of Paris. Fire Works. Maison de
Ville. Guillotine. Palais Royal.
133.
Garden of Plants. Wine Market. 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-
Mechanics of Belgium. Ghent. Journey to Brussels. . Farming
Operations. Public Squares and Fountains. Carved Pulpit. High Mass.
Court of Justice. Field of Waterloo.
181
Forest of Soigny. Battle of Waterloo. Mechlin. Antwerp.
193
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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