BY EDWARD DOUBLF.DAY. 5389 



After seeing Philadelphia, I was disappointed with Balti- 

 more. The Quaker city, with its white marble banks, colleges, 

 mint, and private houses, quite eclipses the monumental city. 

 Still in Baltimore, are one or two good streets, a huge hotel, 

 and many good private houses. The New York fashion of 

 large marble steps and massive iron railings, seems here car- 

 ried to excess. Lottery offices swarm, and negroes are tole- 

 rably plentiful. The Catholic Church, in a Moorish style of 

 building, is very fine. The Unitarian Church, with its inscrip- 

 tion Tw iLnovoj Qeio, is a neat building. 



There are nearly fifty churches in Baltimore. The pillar 

 to Washington is very fine, something like that to the Duke of 

 York in Waterloo-place, but more handsome, and of beauti- 

 fully white marble. In the south, it is customary for a slave 

 to come into your room of a morning, to bring your shoes, 

 brush your coat, &c. In Virginia, they give you a fire in cold 

 weather, without any extra charge. At Baltimore, we first 

 met with the former custom. About seven, a negro came in 

 with my shoes, and a whisk of broom corn, used as a clothes 

 brush throughout the United States. I was not aware of this 

 plan, but soon got used to it, and liked it well enough. 



We spent a very pleasant day with a gentleman resident 

 here : he is very fond of flowers. I learn that our English 

 plants die here in the winter, and this not from the cold, but 

 from the power of the sun on them in frosty weather. Farther 

 northward, where they are covered by the snow, they succeed 

 better. 



We left Baltimore on the morning of the 19th November, 

 by railroad for Washington. Country poor; red cedars, Kalmice, 

 Magnolia glaiica, and Bignonia radicans d\)\xn{\a.ni. We reached 

 the federal city about twelve, and of course took up our abode 

 at Gadsby's, 200 yards from the Capitol, and rather more than 

 a mile from the residence of the President. There are now 

 few people here of note: Gadsby's seems deserted. We strolled 

 about the city, and found it much larger than I had antici- 

 pated, but still there are {ev! good houses ; much building is 

 however going on, and contemplated. 



The next morning we visited the Capitol, a truly noble 

 building, standing in a large plot of ground, rather more than 

 thirty acres, laid out as pleasure ground, with fountains, trees, 

 lawns, gravel-walks, &c. The south-west front has a fine 



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