le.--Column.

LETTER XXIX.

An amusing Fellow-countryman.--Pere la Chaise.--Monuments.--Abattoir.
--Consul's Office; his numerous Calls.

LETTER XXX.

Cirque.--Amusements.--Champs Elysees.--Hippodrome.--Arabs.--Sabbath
kept in Parlor.

LETTER XXXI.

Pleasant Company.--Railroad to Brussels.--Jemappes.--Mons.--Brussels;
History.--Hotel de Ville.--Cathedral Church of St. Gudule; its
Monuments.--First Communion.--Park.--Palace.--Hon. Mr. Bayard.

LETTER XXXII.

Lacework.--Money Matters.--An uncivil Banker.--Museum.--Paintings.
--Burgundian Library.--Manekin.--Botanical Garden.

LETTER XXXIII.

Excursion to Waterloo.--Hongomont.--Relics.--Belgian Mound and
Lion.--Ivy from Waterloo for Mr. J.P. Hall.--Church.--King Leopold.

LETTER XXXIV.

Laeken.--Vilvorde.--Mechlin, or Mallnes.--Antwerp; History.--Place
Verte.--Statue of Rubens.--Cathedral of Notre Dame.--Interior
Pulpit.--Pictures by Rubens.--Tower of the Church.--Quentin Matsys's
fine old Houses.

LETTER XXXV.

St. James's Church.--Tomb of Rubens.--Paintings by Rubens and
Jordaens.--Vandyke.--Mount Calvary.--Monk of La Trappe.--Museum.--Chair
of Rubens; his Pictures.--Other great Works of Art.--St. Andrew's
Church.--Bourse.--Mr. Vesey, U.S. Consul.

LETTER XXXVI.

Dock Yards at Antwerp.--Steamboat Passage on the Scheldt.--Dort.--Lost
Villages.--Bergen op Zoom.--Van Speyk.--Rotterdam.--Erasmus.--Delft.
--Hague.--Hon. George Folsom; his Kindness.--Scheveningen.--Museum.
--Japanese Curiosities.--Historical Curiosities.--Gallery of Pictures.
--Rembrandt, Paul Potter, Gerard Dow, &c.--King's Palace.--Brimenhoff.
--De Witt.--Bosch.--John Adams's House.

LETTER XXXVII.

Dunes.--Leyden; History.--Harlem.--Church of St. Bavon;
Organ.--Coster.--Flower Gardens.--Palace of late King.--Picture
Gallery.--Exhibition of Pictures by living Artists.--Amsterdam.

LETTER XXXVIII.

Mr. J.G. Schwartze.--Stadhuis.--Churches.--Jews.--Picture
Gallery.--Dutch School.--Columbus before the Council.--Artists' Club.

LETTER XXXIX.

Utrecht.--Lobith.--Ruhrort.--Meet with Americans on Return from the
East.--Cologne; History.--Cathedral.--Three Kings.--Relics.--St. Peter's
Church.--Crucifixion of Peter, by Rubens.--Champagne for America.

LETTER XL.

The
Rhine.--Bonn.--Drachenfels.--Godesberg.--Rolandseck.--Oberwinter.
--Okenfels.--Castle Reineck.--Neuwied.--A Raft.--Castle of
Sain.--Ehrenbreitstein.--Coblentz.

LETTER XLI.

Coblentz.--The