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Table of Contents

       PREFACE.

       FRANCE.

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      LETTER I.

      Our Embarkation.—Leave-taking.—Our Abigail.—Bay of New York.—The

       Hudson.—Ominous Prediction.—The Prophet falsified.—Enter the

       Atlantic.—"Land-birds."—Our Master.—Officers of Packet-ships.—Loss

       of "The Crisis."—The "Three Chimneys."—Calamities at Sea.

      —Sailing-match.—View of the Eddystone.—The Don Quixote.—Comparative

       Sailing.—Pilot-boats.—Coast of Dorsetshire.—The Needles.

      —Lymington.—Southampton Water.—The Custom-house.

      LETTER II.

      Controversy at Cowes.—Custom-house Civility.—English Costume.—Fashion

       in America.—Quadrilles in New York.—Cowes.—Nautical Gallantry.

       English Beauty.—Isle of Wight Butter.—English Scenery.—M'Adamized

       Roads.—Old Village Church.—Rural Interment.—Pauper's

       Grave.—Carisbrooke Cattle.—Southampton.—Waiter at the Vine.—English

       Costume.—Affinity with England.—Netley Abbey.—Southampton Cockneys.

      LETTER III.

      Road to London.—Royal Pastime.—Cockney Coachman.—Winchester Assizes.

      —Approach to London.—The Parks.—Piccadilly.—Street Excursion.

      —Strangers in London.—Americans in England.—Westminster Abbey.

      —Gothic Decorations.—Westminster Hall.—Inquisitive Barber.—Pasta and

       Malibran.—Drury-lane Theatre.—A Pickpocket.—A Fellow-traveller.

      —English Gentlemen.—A Radical.—Encampment of Gipsies.—National

       Distinctions.—Antiquities.—National Peculiarities.

      LETTER IV.

      Quit England.—Approach to France.—Havre.—Our Reception there.—Female

       Commissionnaire.—Clamour of Drums.—Port of Havre.—Projected

       Enterprize.—American Enterprize.—Steam-boat

       Excursion.—Honfleur.—Rouen.—French Exaction.—American

       Porters.—Rouen Cathedral.—Our Cicerone.—A Diligence.—Picturesque

       Road.—European Peasantry.—Aspect of the Country.—Church at

       Louviers.—Village near Vernon.—Rosny.—Mantes.—Bourbon Magnificence.

      —Approach to Paris—Enter Paris.

      LETTER V.

      Paris in August 1826.—Montmartre.—The Octroi.—View of Paris.

      —Montmorency.—Royal Residences.—Duke of Bordeaux.—Horse-racing.

      —The Dauphine.—Popular feeling in Paris.—Royal Equipage.—Gardes du

       Corps.—Policy of Napoleon.—Centralization.

      LETTER VI.

      Letters of Introduction.—European Etiquette.—Diplomatic

       Entertainments.—Ladies in Coffee-houses.—French Hospitality.—Mr.

       Canning at Paris.—Parisian Hotels.—French Lady at

       Washington.—Receptions in Paris and in New York.—Mode of

       Announcement.—Republican Affectation.—Hotel Monaco.—Dinner given to

       Mr. Canning.—Diplomatic Etiquette.—European Ambassadors.—Prime

       Minister of France.—Mr. Canning.—Count Pozzo di Borgo.—Precedency at

       Dinner.—American Etiquette.—A French Dinner.—Servants.—Catholic

       Fasting.—Conversation with Canning.—English Prejudice against

       Americans.

      LETTER

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