232 



WANDERINGS IN SOUTH AMEKTCA. 



look well in tlie braided hair ; and if there be raven 

 locks, a lily or a snowdrop may be interwoven with, 

 eii'ect. 



jSTow that the packets are so safe, and make such 

 quick passages to the United States, it would be as well 

 if some of our head milKners would go on board of them, 

 in lieu of getting into the Diligence for Paris. They 

 would bring back more taste, and less caricature. And 

 if they could persuade a dozen or two of the farmers' 

 servant girls to return with them, we should soon have 

 proof positive, that as good butter and cheese may be 

 made with the hair braided up, and a daisy or primrose 

 in it, as butter and cheese made in a cap of barbarous 

 shape ; washed, perhaps, in soap-suds last new moon. 



New York has very good hotels, and 

 boarding- genteel boarding-houses. All charges in- 



houses. & & & 



eluded, you do not pay above two dollars 

 a- day. Little enough, when you consider the capital 

 accommodations, and the abundance of food. 



In this city, as well as in others which I visited, 

 everybody seemed to walk at his ease. I could see no 

 inclination for jostling ; no impertinent staring at you ; 

 nor attempts to create a row in order to pick your 

 pocket. I would stand for an hour together in Broad- 

 way, to observe the passing multitude. There is cer- 

 tainly a gentleness in these people, both to be admired 

 and imitated. I could see very few dogs, still fewer 

 cats, and but a very small proportion of fat women, in 

 the streets of New York. The climate was the only 

 thing that I had really to find fault with ; and as the 

 autumn was now approaching, I began to think of 

 preparing for warmer regions. 



Strangers are apt to get violent colds, on account of 



