Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1843-12-22
VOL. X.-NO.. III. =
COST OF A EUROPEAN TOUR.

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Mr.. +. Brooks, one of the editors Of tho
N. Y. Express, having recently returned
from rapid tour in Europe gives the fol-,
lowing answer TO sundry enquiries. ao,.ir,3
"rhe route Of the writer after landing
in England at the Isle Of Wight, and Wis
iting Portsmouth and Brighton OH the way
TO London aud the towns in the vicinity,
was through Belgium, Holland-fron Ann
sterdam to Hamburg, to Kiel in Denmark,
from Kiel to Copenhagen, aud from Co
penhagen TO EIsineur and Gottenburg in
Sweden, from Gouenburg TO Chrisiiana
and the interior of Norway From Nor
way the writer retraced his steps to Got
tenburg and thence by post and Canal TO
the capital of Sweden. In Sweden he Wis
tied Upsala and the mining districts. Re-
turning to Stockholm he took passage for
Ado aud Reve in Finland, and thence to
Constadt aud ST. Petersburg. In Russia
he travelled from eighteen hundred TO two
thousand miles, nine-tenths of the distance
by the land conveyances of the county,
Poland came next in his route, and enter
ing the country upon the Russian frontier,
he left il by the Prussian His route in
Prussia after visiting Berlin, Potsdam and
all places of interest 10 the vicinity, was
by mail road to Leipsic, and thence to
Dresden by the same conveyance. Having
spent few days in Saxony we passed on by
land and water to Prague, and continued
our route through Bohemia 10 Liniz on the
Danube descending which we found our
way to Vienna. Our route after visiting
all the country in the neighborhood was 10
Trieste, across the Syrian Alps TO Trieste,
thence by the Adriatc to Venice. By
Padua, Ferrara, Bo!onga, Florence, Rome
and Naples, we reached the Mediterranean,
leaving Naples for Leghorn, Pisa and &C.
nOa.
BY Pavia we reached Milan and re-enter-.
ed Sardinia after crossing the Simplon.-
Switzerland came next, and after passing
many pleasant days upon the lakes and
mountains, we left Genoa by the Jura noun
tains and entered Paris by the interesting
province Of Burgunda, following the Seine
from Dion by the Capitol By Rouen and
Harve we re-entered England, and after
travelling one thousand miles in England,
and Ireland, and Scotland, took passage
from Liverpool to New York, in the ship
which, in sigh, Of land and home, had well
nigh given US grave beneath the sea. 5..
We have mentioned but few of tho
places we visited--the time of absence was
few days short of eight months. Our tray,
elling expenses were little more than
one thousand dollars. The distance, in
GLIDING two voyages across the Atlantic,
about nineteen thousand miles. = sair
The most expensive country for travell-
ing we visited was Russia England came
next, and then Holland. In Norway, Dem
mark Sweden, Poland, Prussia, Austria
and all the German country, expenses are
about the same as they ore in the United
States. In Italy and France travelling is
cheaper than with u.s. In Russia, one of
the most expensive items as well as the
greatest annoyance, is passports. The Gus
tom of feeling servants prevails all over Eu-
rope, and the demand is legion. At the
respectable hotels in England, waiter, cham
bermaid and boots expect per diem of fifty
cents. If you ride hundred miles upon
an English or Irish mail coach you must
pay the guard and the coachman, who de-.
mand at least two English 'shllings EACH
The list of sundries, TOO are many for Por-.
terage. Railroad travelling in England, is
very expensive, aud the price in the second
class cars is considerably more than the
Prussia, Saxony and Austria where Alto
gether there are about three or four hun
dred miles of railroads completed, railroad
travelling is about the same as with U.S.,
In France the difference is not material,
but in the second class cars which are gene
rally equalto our best, the price of travel,
is cheaper. Travelling by coaches in Great
Britain varies from 81 80 to So for one hum,
dred miles, the inside seats being the most
expensive, and good weather the least COM.
The prices in the French and
Italian diligences also vary, and almost in
he same ratio. Throughout almost all Eu-
rope boarding is almost pece-work bus
mess. A Dane, Swede and Norwegian,
will eat four or five meals day and-a
Frenchman never more than two. Each
pays for what he has, and the amount of,
| bill of course depends altogether upon the
ancy and appetite of the traveller, ee9
- "ieniisl N
Hoe STATIsTIcs.-A large business is
Icing in Cincinnati, as usual at this time
If year Some 10 or II 900 were pack ed
Up in the last week in November ! hut
lroves continually arrived, and us the
weather. was comparatively warm aud nnfa-
favorable to killing, prices gave way. ioMost9
'rthe rates have ranged froIns 2 32to - g..
Madison, in Indiana, ION the Ohio,) is
lso doing a large business in packing hogs
nd beef The general price Of hogs Of
100 pounds aud over, was So So qorg s3I
New lard was selling at from s, to I-2
ents Helsa DIP o. higa
--a 4itns- fsaNs
A most distressing paragraph, to the effect
hat Jacksontown, ia Huntington county, Pa,