Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1860-02-09
: LETTER FROM EUROPE
NO. e..
PARIS, October &c, 1859.

,ear nothing but English spoken.
Is can understand and speak the
French language, | feel no embar-
.assment whatever in my intercourse
With, and, indeed, feel quite at
home among them. have found
put a number of places which are de.
cidedly American, two Of which !
will mention. One is Restaurant,
where / go often md find articles
Of food cooked in the best American
style. This eating establishment, il
is said, is the only one on this side
of the Atlantic where buck-uhea
cakes ana pumpkin pies can be had.
The other place is the Wesleyan or
American Chapel where | go every
Sabbath, either at one or the other.
The other day, as entered, the frst
sound that struck my ear was the
familiar notes of "Old Hundred"
We have as yet no signs OF frost;
the weather in general is mild and
delightful; but the other day bad
to got out and buy a few pounds of
wood to make my apartment COM
Portable. What think you Of buyin 6
wood by the pound!
From the hasty sketches OF my late
tour on the Continent, | will now
add a few extracts in addition TO my
| last letter. Our course south from
lake Constance was by the pretty.
modern looking town Of Zurich and
the lake of the same name touch
ing Stata, the place visited by Goethe
in 1897, and at the quaint old town
70 Rappershuyl. Here is a German
name truly euphomeal, but hard to
be well pronounced by an Amarlcan
like myself. The last mentioned
town had an existence far back lnto
antiquity aud is beautifully situated
on the border Of the lake most
noted for it's we'll preserved walls ant
watch-towers and remarkable OLD
castle on the heights above the town
We assembled to the top of one o.
the watch towers where We found &
: solitary old German who pretended
to show the relies TO visitors and re-
lated some wonderful events connect
ed With its history. The view from
1.-THE summit WAS really grand, The
distant view of lake Zurich, bordefet
by a large number of picturesque
looking towns together with the tow
: enng mountains on all sides covered
with perpetual snow, caused US t
/ linger long to enjoy the inviting
landscape. Cliuging to the walls o
| this old castle is the most remark
able ivy that | ever saw. 1t mus
, be near thousand years old; tn
body is not less than two feet in dl
smeter. While visiting an oh
church we entered a chapel near b.
aud novel view presented itself,
was nothing less than ten thousan'
human skulls piled up in regule
walls from the floor to the roof, pre-
senting a sight alike interesting an
unique. 1t seems to be an snclen
and drearily cherished custom in mos
European countries thus TO preserv
the bones of departed friends an
relatives, and is considered by ther
greater mark of respect and ven
Grafton for the deceased than 10 allo'
! them to decay and entirely dlsap
pear.
BATHS OF PREFER We arrived a
, this place in few hours from lax
E Zurich, and in it is truly one oil tn
, most wonderful places IN all Swlt2
erland. These baths are two and
, a half miles from the travele
route, amt are situated in dee
and frightfn! gorge between tn
, mountains which rise on either sid
almost perpendicularly from one t
: two thousand barely leayin
room for the river Farnina whic
rushes down this narrow gorge in til
, mountain with terrific impetuosity
, These baths are accessible by
char road cut into and at places ur
der projecting rocks. The hotel an
! bathing houses are built close by tn
, roaring torrent. and are so. deep be
tween the mountains that the SUI
never shines upon them except shol
time in :he middle of the day. lib
source of the Hot Springs (abou
J, one hundred deg. Fahrenheit,)
: situated a quarter of mike hlghe
up the gorge, and the water is cor
r veyed by pipes to the bathing estat
; lishment, which is reached by nal
row foot bridge, made of plank an
b supported by iron spikes driven int
IL.