Travels in the United States, etc.,: during 1849 and 1850./ By the Lady Emmeline Stuart Wortley.

TRAVELS IN AMERICA.
with M. Arago. We lost no time, and I am indeed glad to have
had so favorable an opportunity of seeing, in its greatest splendor,
one of the most sublime scenes in creation. Though the sun was
terribly hot there, we could not for some time tear ourselves away
firom the contemplation of all that august magnificence of Nature.
It must be remembered that Popocatepetl far out-towers Mont
Blanc.
Before we went down stairs, M. Arago asked me to look down
upon his patio, which is really beaultifiil, with superb fountains
and corridors, the loveliest and most graceful, and a vast profusion
of large gayly-colored Chinese lamps, or lanterns, which are lighted
every evening, and must produce the most magical effect, reflected
by the sparkling waters of the clear fountains. Trees, covered
with flowers in all seasons, overshadow costly tables of marble,
and guard from the hot sun, in the day-time, the visitors to the
Cafe de Bazaar adjoining the hotel. The hotel is crammed with
guests.
In returning, we were pestered with beggars, especially Liliputian
leperos, mounted like monkeys on each other's shoulders, and klieeping up the most inharmonious din. The hair of one was like a
huge gooseberry-bush, and she would most pertinaciously follow us,
though there was hardly room for us and her shock of hair on the
broad pavement: it stuck out at the sides like two great black
wings, so that I was constantly coming in contact with that unpleasant hair. A little brother or sister was perched on the girl's
shoulders, and helped to do the whining work. I think this
spread-out forest of tangled locks was partly designed as a defensive
wall to the head that seemed lost in it; for you see tormented
pedestrians frequently dealing rather desperate blows at the crowns
of these indefatigable persecutors-altogether forgetffil of the more
gentle "Perdone V." They certainly plague one out of patience.
I have not seen any of the deformed leperos mounted on the
shoulders of porters, or peons, that Mr. Ruxton describes-perhaps
that portermanship is out of fashion.
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