LOO PALACES. 
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Sive cold of their long winters, and of various plans and 
dimensions. The roofs were all painted red, without p 
single exception; and, though they were log-liouses, they 
were mch log-houses! Their walls were of huge pine 
logs, smootlily planed, and made to fit one over the other 
like the howls of so many spoons; and the cracks thus 
left were tightly calked and then puttied. Tliey were 
mostly of one story; but then such “one stories’" as they 
were ! Some of them covered a vast extent of ground, — 
the governor’s mansion in particular, in which, if I re- 
member rightly, I counted twenty-three apartments. 
“Old Frybark’s” domicil was the only one that boasted 
a second floor, and he acknowledged that to be more for 
summer use than any thing else. 
We noticed that every room was provided with a huge 
fireplace, and that the windows were all double, the 
glasses being separated about six inches apart, and con- 
taining between them an ordinary brick, upon which was 
raised a small pile of table-salt. The object of this salt, 
they told us, was to absorb the moisture which penetrated 
through the outer window before it could enter through 
the second into the apartment. 
“ Oh !” exclaimed our jovial host, as we lounged through 
the twenty-three rooms of the governor’s vast mansion, — 
“oh ! it is such a pity that the fear of the Allies drove the 
governor and his family into the country ! See here this 
fine rosewood piano : you should hear his beautiful daugh- 
ters sing to its deep-toned sound, or see them dance with 
the doctor and the aide-de-camp around this large room.” 
We could not avoid acknowledging our deep participa- 
tion in his regrets, as he thus showed us what we had 
