The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1851-06-25
Correspondence Of the Register.
'r' ---.-. 2 PARIS, June I'd, 1851.
FRIEND BARIETr :

" hen. sit down to write to
intelligent friends across the Atlantic, |
have more difficulty than you can well
understand in determining What To write
about. Paris nnd lis nefghborhood are
full of things strange and interesting to
scribed to you in books and newspapers
scores of times. To whatever subject |
turn it seems as though ! should be lcll-
ING you an old story. Every event in
politics or in science that happens here
flies across the Atlantic, lat least n trans
cript of it flies. and American readers
&c, it by telegraph. And as To palaces
and pictures and monuments-why, if |
could daguerreoiyre them Tor yoi on this
paper-ihat would do; as for The rest
they are not easy things to describe in
an interesting way by worIs. Yet these
are the things, in great measure, that
an American sees, and comes here To
see, aud must tell you something about
them.
have already written once or twice
To friends in Middlebury, and | presume
you have heard from them that made
a safe passage of fifteen days to South
amplon, in the steamer Hermann was
sea-sck, and, of course, dreadlully mis-
cradle, twothiIds Of the voyage; went
TO London aud spent couple Of days,
and then proceeded directly TO this city,
where arrived the middle of AprIl. If
you were a professional man, | mean a
Doctor, ! would write ynu volume about
sea-sickness Ii is a very interesting dis.
ease, g. one which he who has had il once
will not be apt to forget. IL you were a
lover of the intoxicating weed, | would
ask you to recall to memory your first
experiment in its use. Sea-slckness is
prolonged and aggravated tobacco
sickness. Ii comes on almost upper
ceptibly. Yon are in lore with the
ocean at first, you like TO watch It's
never-ceasing motion, and its waves that
whenever You look over the side of the
vessel leap up to meet you the sea
breeze inv gorates YOU, and aiier break :
fasi you strut up aud down the deck of
the vessel. and wonder why people wiil
be sea-sick. But, by.and by, you feel
somehow kind of odd -, you think
that your stomach IS out of order ="
you think you will have to diet, aud wish
you had bottle of Congress water
You feel liille headache 4; You look al
your tongue it isn't exactly right your
lace is pale you conclude, perhaps, you
are gong to have a sick headache. My
dear fellow. hug not the delusive phan-
tom Ia your bosom" In the emphatic
language of stage -drivers. you ATE "book
ed for IA tour at sea.sickness. spare
the details.
entered Paris at an early hour of the
morning, before the shops we're opened
aud while the streets were still deserted.
" iih an American, the first impression
under such circumstances is not iavora-
bic. The aspect of a city, us you 90
through its streets, depents much on the
material of which il is mainly built
Paris is built, with few and small exccp-
lions, of what geologsls call marine
limestone; the color, dull white, often
shgh,ly tinged with yellow, the Consist
ence soft, aud porous il is therefore
easily worked Ii seems IL he very tree
from iron, 20 that il does not become
rusty but lis porosily lavors the reten-
ton Of water, and II is soon covered
more or less in different places, with mi.
mute vegetable growlhs, fungi, that
speedily give /, blackened appearance
streakrd aud paichy. The palaces and
other public edifces, which you see look,
ing all bright in pictures, present an old
aud time-siained aspect, that very forcibly
strikes him who is accustomed 10 the
freshness and shine Of American cities.
The same is true in all the towns have
seen this side of the Atlantic. The ar
ch,eciure Of this city has peculiarly
that is not at all pleasing. refer TO The