The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1858-07-07
summer Tour in Europe.

The mere itinerary Of friends abroad Is nov
the principal matter of interest with these whose
reading hes prepared them to supply, at the point.
visited, the chief objects Of curiosity; and this
is all which we deem It necessary TO condense
from the notes accessible to us. il.
The Fandsr5,h, passing around the
Isle of Wight, discharged her passengers
and mails for Southampton at the harbor
of Cowes, April Goth. aud crossing the
British Channel passed along the French
shore till at the broad mouth Of the Seine
she rounded a point and entered the har
bor of Favre Allowing FIVE and half
hours for the difference Of time in going
cast she was just ten days and six hours
from her dock in New York to her az
chorage in Havre having sailed at seven
in the morning of April 10th An in
genious method has been devised, by which
the distance made by steam vessels il
measured by mechanical register Of the
revolutions of the wheels A certain al
lowance is made for the slip of the wheel,
which in the average is estimated By the
Engineer Of the Vanderbilt at fifteen feet
to each revolution; the diameter Of the
! wheel is forty-two feet. The number Of
revolutions registered was l8l ,09S; which
is said to give the aggregate result nearly
as obtained by log.
The harbor of Havre is crowded with
shipping, and the difficulty is not little
annoying, in passing from vessel to vessel
over those lying nearest the dock. 1t is
accomplished without complaint, however,
in season for cordial appreciation Of
good hotel, and the comforts of night
on shore.
A railroad of fifty. three miles takes the
travellers to Rouen by 2 P. NJ, April
| 81, where the attractions of the ancient
capital Of Normandy are mingled with
the stir Of an active and busy population,
engaged in the cotton manufacture. The
great cathedral gives them its first inn
/ pressions of the grandeur Of ecclesiastical
architecture. 1t dates back to 1850,
/ though parts of it were built subsequent
| ly, and measures, within, length Of 435
feet, height of the nave 89l feet. These
proportions accompanied with the minute
finish of the middle ages impressed upon
them, our Americans hardly expect to see
anything more grand in Europe. The
church of St Ouen, of nearly as old
date, is said to equal the cathedral in ex'
tent, and surpass it in purity of STYLE
To Paris the. distance by railroad, follow
ing and crossing repeatedly the Seine, is
"a miles 1t is accomplished by 5 o'clock,
P. NJ, Of April %, in just two weeks
from Middlebury.
The Hotel du Louvre on the Rue
Rivoi opposite the garden of the Tuil-
leries, is the home of the party during
their twelve days residence in the city.
These beautiful public grounds with those
Of the Louvre and Place Carousal, lie for
more than half mile in the centre Of the
city, between the River and Rue Rivsli.
set with varieties of ornamental trees in
some parte grown to forest, laid out in
walks and adorned with fountains and stat
uary Upon the garden, at its eastern
end, extends the Palace Of the Tuilleries.
This is the position of the party newly ar
rived, in the bloom of the season, for ''its
first observation of the capital of France
The stone of which Paris is built is
light and cheerful in color; in architec.
ture the French themselves have had and
are having 4 present, developing with
their own civilization they have pas
sion fer the reality of art, if less idesl
than some of their cotemporaries, and
realize the indulgence of this in displays
of it SO liberal and works so perfect, thar
more artistic peoples pay them court and
acknowledge their superiority in execu-
ten. As in art, in which they display
best, so in commerce dress, or mechani-
cal skill The nationality acts In every
department alike, and realizes to the
stranger the best it can do in its capital
-Pere La Chgise was for a generation
the best burial place it could form. I.
was commenced in 1904 by Napoleon,
was three miles from the centre Of the
city, yet chiefly overlooking it, and was
the first of modern cemeteries so accepta-
BILE to the living, associating the exquisite
in Nature with the dead. -
Versailles is not the monument of the
Bourbons, as are not the Pyramids to any
Egyptian dynasty ia form, but brass or
marble viii not be wanting to them while
its empty splendors endure. 1t is the
Tadmor of Louis XIV. Ii is n nags.