New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-06-12
The Bots de vineennes.

a. young Louisianian, now in Paris, writes pri.
yate letter home, dated 2ist May, from which we
make the following extract;
Yesterday we all went to the Bots de Vim.
cennes, five miles from Mrs, Belknap's house, at
the other side Of the city. 1t is the resort of the
common people, while the Bots de Boulogne is
thronged with the carriages of the noblesse. A
very pretty place It combines hill and valley,
land and water, nature and art, and all are so
tastefully grouped together as to form beautiful
picture, and most agreeable place to spend an
afternoon, or have picnic under its shady trees.
Unlike the Bots de BonlOgne, it is not defeadu d
iadroher sur les gGzoHs, and the children play on
the grass the gentlemen and ladies stroll through
its cool shaded wood-paths, and everyone enjoys
himself in his own peculiar way. Here group
of ten or dozen blouses, with their wives, are
seated on the turf under big oak, taking rural
dinner; there student, stretched at the foot of
that great tree, has allowed his book to fall from
his lstless hands and dropped asleep nlIed by
the signing Of the wind through the leaves, famed
by the soft breezes that kiss his forehead and pro
tected from the sun By the o7erhanging branches,
that seem to watch over MIN as he yields himself
to the sweetinluenees and Wooing arms of Deaths
twin sister. There little forest path leads into
the obscure depths of a wood on this side is
good sized stream insinuating itself in and out
forming little fairy-like Islands, and spanned now
and thenby rustic bridge: lust beyond which. is
a. rowboat, holding two gentlemen and LADY,
gliding around bend in the land, and going to
that further iset to take dinnerin its hotel. Our
remise carries us along the banks Of lake-a sail
boat bends gracefully to the wind, and rapidly
passes the slower-going skifs. In the center is
rocky island, crowned on top by a summer-house,
while underneath it is cave, and people stray in
and ont under its pendant stalactytes, looking as
though it were the chamber Of some mammoth
cave brought here to complete the scenery ana
please the eye. One elevated pointafords a view
of all the country for miles round Down there,
a thousand feet below, river winds its sinuous
course, its overhanging banks covered with thick
large growth, pleasant dark-green contrast to
the silvery water. A little further back row of
great trees border the country road standing at
exact distances from each other, and not varying
an inch from the right line, they look like file off
soldiers after the command had been given right
dress" Beyond, the land rolls of, dotted with
trees, fields and houses, and finally rises against
.he horizon in line Of dark hills. Itisa very de-
ightful place, and the peoples resort. Not ex-
letly the size of Lafayette Square, it covers
pace as large as q hundred such and some parts
u it resembled the road to Carrollton. You will
.njoy trip to this part Of the world for Paris is
made for enjoyment but like Mark Anthony in his |
peech to theaRomans, " if you have tears, pre-
pare to shed them now;n so here, if you have
money, prepare to spend it when you come, for
you see SO many things that are absolutely neces-
ary yet you did not feel their want before, that