give room for a few acres of bright green herbage, give
great interest and variety to its course.

Baltimore is, I think, one of the handsomest cities to ap-
proach in the Union. The noble column erected to the
memory of Washington, and the Catholic Cathedral, with
its beautiful dome, being built on a commanding eminence,
are seen at a great distance. As you draw nearer, many
other domes and towers become visible, and as you enter
Baltimore-street, you feel that you are arrived in a hand-
some and populous city.

We took up our quarters at an excellent hotel, where the
coach stopped, and the next day were fortunate enough to
find accommodation in the house of a lady, well known to
many of my European friends. With her and her amiable
daughter we spent a fortnight very agreeably, and felt quite
aware that if we had not arrived in London or Paris, we
had, at least, left far behind the "half-horse, half-alligator"
tribes of the West, as the Kentuckians call themselves.

Baltimore is in many respects a beautiful city; it has
several handsome buildings, and even the private dwelling-
houses have a look of magnificence, from the abundance of
white marble with which many of them are adorned. The
ample flights: of steps, and the lofty door frames, are in
most of the best houses formed of this beautiful material.

This has been called the city of monuments, from its
having the stately column erected to the memory of General
Washington, and which bears a colossal statue of him at
the top; and another pillar of less dimensions, recording
some victory; I forget which. Both these are of brilliant
white marble. There are also several pretty marble foun-
tains in different parts of the city, which greatly add to its
beauty. These are not, it is true, quite so splendid as that
of the Innocents, or many others at Paris, but they are
fountains of clear water, and they are built of white marble.

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