Delaware gazette and peninsula advertiser. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1814-1820, 1818-09-30

!, reets and lanes, wil0se buildings, II b
me may SO speak, are composed Of G
human bones. collentcd from the dH- b
terent cemeteries of Paris, and arran- {
sed according 10 the teeeptac'es
hence they were collected. II Is.
indeed, n GoiSotaa---a place Of skui's.i'
You pass through parishes oftlle dead.
1t is Paris in the grave. Here its
once guy and busy people lie ranged
in their last house they occupied
whilst living. Ii is an affecting sight,
it is like going down into the very
heart OF the empire Of death, snd
|intru,liry into the capital OF the king
Of terrors. One pile alone contains
two millions four hundred thousan''
human skulls, and the different heaps
extended for mile in iength.--Nn-
thing can he conceived more ST lenn
am affecting than visit TO thrse
ureary abudes. The iDdistinctness
With which objects are seen by thel
feeble light Of the taper you carry mi
your hanti--the intricacy aud uneer-
tainty Of the path you traverse, anti
(which is only indicated AS the right
one by d black line drawn iiot,S the
Iroof oi the cavern, the loss oil which
lalonr might be ra,si 80 the patty
l.ne thick md palpnbi~ darkness iato
(which the inDumerabis passages
lbraneh out--the ghasiIy and ,tir ting
;l,ateria's of iiiclI the waits that on
lever, side enclose you are composed
the appropriate mottos and SENT
: ,nrD;s rngraven upon rude stones,
with various sepulrhrai devices. inter
sperse,i throughout tue melancholy
piies~--the deep silence that rei6ns
Iaround, broken only by the voice Of
the yisilers. in cuI iosily or terror-----
cunspire To render this the must inter
esting and instructive OF all the cXhl-
IoitiOns have ever seen. There the
|gay and volatile spirit Of the French
sceans to have sunk into something
like seriousness and thoughts ana
words th,l refer to the Supreme b.
ing, and au internal world, are rccor
deG."
| i" HITHERTO regard to our safet,
liza d confined our attention entirely Il
our footsteps, and the objects 'cncati
usj hut having nearly reached IL,
ceutre Of the glacier, The guide eA
horted Us 10 pause, and look nronni
Us. We did sG--a1d were amply re
eumprnsed for All oIr Toll j,y scene
Of winch it is not, perhaps, exira'a
lgant 70 say, that il bias 80 parallel o,
Inc face OF the globe. ! shrink from
The vain effort Uf description but III
grand "ntiinc is i,itrlibdy impressed
upon my mind, ana l am coniiden
will never he efIared while anj irace
oi the past shall remain upon the Ia
lie Of n'y memory. We were cmbO
|sumrd amid the shaggy waves. an,
lyawning ahysres Of the icy Sta
over these, On every hand, appeared
the MOUNTAINS, thai rise almost per
!pendivulariy from lis bI'ink. cloths
10 pai1 Msth the little crimson flower
Of the itho!0dendron FerrusiEruE
that b'Goms upon their sides. Still
higher, we're the regions Of eterAa
snow, that. aud AMOR, buried iron
- tneir heavy treasures, the catarnc
or the ayAlanche: 20 augment III
inilows, and 10 swell The underu,nin
w torrent, OF the glarier. AS the cy
e. looked UP the valley, the view BEGAN.
as n'ore hisieous and appalling. Ever
hi 'rarc oi vegetation gradually die
'S away. and t:ie snowy, mountains an
rs tie icy seas appeared To meet an
o. .Eing!e with each other-----for Wher
q the grand jorasse rears its cOloss;
he| iorm as If 70 bar the entrance int
he yailics OF Piedmont, and frown Gcl
'' ance Oh the bold attempt. ail is a,
"a vast wlidncss OF SNOW, except that. u
II" every hand, immense py ramiiis OF slat
~ md rugged rock enicrse from the:
x pure regions, TO pierce the heaven,
M and stand in eternal SLEEVE, the !;
'"sI -,altir guardians Of this woD,lrul
'a' vale. Some Of them present IA iroi
81 four or five thousand feet to Il
of WINTER storm. They are called nc,
XII dics, from the fincness of the po!n
err IN which they terminate, and ear
'us Que has its appropriate name AT
his characteristic features. In from
his cooking up the valley, are the gre
ns. and little Jorasse, a whose feet u
ur- icy sea di'i.ies---tO@ether with q
oIvssi peakfs OF the facal and the G
md ant. At the foot OF this last, Mon