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He declared himself (on being asked) a good Christian, and i)robably thought himself so when 

 in the midst of liis career. 



We have been to Pompeii and Hcrculaneum. I found the space uncovered much larger than 

 I had supposed it to be, and tlie remains mucli more perfect and of much higher art. The sight, 

 however, did not produce the deep feeling wiiich came over me at tlie Notcli House of the Willey 

 family (White Mountains), — ]irobably because its period is so remote, and, moreover, it belongs 

 to a mode of life so different from ours that I could not bring the actors before me as I could 

 those in the Yankee bar-room. 



On leaving Naples, we shall go to Rome, pay another visit to Florence, and then to Venice 

 and Milan. After this, as we cannot pass the Alps for some time, we may go to look after the 

 " German mind " at Vienna and Derlin, as we can have a railroad all through Germany. . . . 



We have found a great many Americans in Italy, and indeed tliere seems to be a greater 

 show of Americans at the hotels than of English. By the by, if you see Mr. Worcester, I wish 

 you would ask him to strike the word interesting out of his Dictionary ; the Yankees abuse it 

 more than they ever did guess. 



Notwithstanding all the queer things that hang about us, we show our superiority to this 

 Latin race, and appear amongst them as lordly as John Bull. " I '11 tell you what," said a 

 Virginian, " these Ital-Uans have the big works, but we have the big hearts." There may be a 

 future in which Rome will be annexed. 



Yours faithfully, 



D. Treadwell. 



To Dr. John Ware. 



Pauis, May 15, 1848. 



Dear Sir, — My last letter was to Mr. Rice from Vienna, about the 25th of April, and a day 

 or two after we left for Prague by railroad. Then down tlie Elbe to Dresden ; through 

 Leipzig, Halle, Weimar, Erfurt, and Gotha, to Eisenach, by rail ; to Frankfort by diligence ; to 

 Mayence by rail ; by steamer to Cologne ; tlien to Brussels, Liege, Amiens, to Paris, stopping, of 

 course, at all the important points, and giving the usual day to Waterloo. The weather was 

 uniformly fine, and tiie journey altogetlicr pleasant and instructive. I find I was more wrong 

 in my ideas of the German people than in anything else I have seen. They are higher in civili- 

 zation, in art, and with apparently a more comfortable distribution of wealth, and the means of 

 enjoyment, than I had supposed it possible for them to be. I believe if the whole German people 

 were united under a wise federal government, tliey would be the first nation in wealth and 

 power on the Continent. Perhaps in mere fighting power the hot-blooded French might go 

 before them ; but in all which constitutes the power of a nation at peace, the Germans, I think, 

 would take the lead. They seem now to bo advancing in the course of true reform ; and altliougli 

 it has been attended in several states with violences wliicli have for a time paralyzed all law and 

 government, it was the only way in which anything could have been done. Tlie crowns have 

 never yielded to the people, and never will yield a step for their good but upon compulsion. 



We found Paris in a state of excitement and fever that is fearful to think upon wlien one 

 calls to mind the scenes of the first Revolution. The people seemed like madmen broken loose 

 from their keepers ; and yet there is a certain kind of order and confidence in the continuance of 

 personal security. I have remarked elsewhere — in Italy, Germany, and here — the great in- 

 fluence wliich past discipline yet possesses in controlling the people. Society is now governed 



