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treniely well, and was very happy at hearing from 

 you. My time has been so much occupied, and the 

 Jardin des Plantes at such a distance, that I have 

 not yet had time to make him a second visit. 



Mr. Millin has been so polite as to invite me to 

 the evening meetings at his house every septidie of 

 the decade, which I find extremely interesting and 

 pleasant. The evening I spent there we had per- 

 haps thirty people, — several foreigners, but no En- 

 glishman but myself. We have the good fortune 

 to be extremely well situated in the Place du Ca- 

 rousel, or what was formerly St. Wicaise, one side 

 of which has been pulled down, with all the old 

 houses that encumbered the Carousel ; and the 

 square is now completed, and a most magnificent 

 thing it is. We are directly opposite the Thuille- 

 ries, and St. Mark's Horses are placed just before 

 our windows. We have seen, or rather looked at, 

 most of the curiosities of Paris. It would be im- 

 possible to attempt giving you any thing like a 

 description of what is to be seen among the sta- 

 tues and pictures of the Louvre. To you it is only 

 necessary to mention, that among two hundred of 

 the choicest models of statuary, are to be reckoned 

 the Apollo Belvedere, the Torso, the Antinoiis of 

 the Capitol, the Laocoon, the Venus, the Juno, the 

 Bacchus of the Capitol, the Gladiator moriens, the 

 delicious Venus sortant du Bain, the Cupid and 

 Psyche, and many little if at all inferior. 



Among the pictures which the Louvre Gallery 

 (1500 feet long) will not contain, are the Transfi- 

 guration, and other of the greatest works of Ra- 



