Society, Manners, And Politics in the United States; Being a Series of Letters On North America
Society, Manners, And Politics in the United States; Being a Series of Letters On North America
Chevalier, Michel, 1806-1879
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Richmond, Aug. 16, 1835i Richmond stands in an admirable situation on the slope of a hill whose base is bathed by the James River. Its Capitol, with its brick columns covered with plaster, with its cornice and architrave of painted wood, produces an effect, at a distance, which even the Parthenon, in the days of Pericles, could not have surpassed ; for the sky of Virginia, when it is not darkened by a storm, or veiled with snow, is as beautiful as that of Attica. Richmond has its port nearer th...an the Piraeus was to Athens, while, at the same time it stands upon the falls of James River. Richmond enchanted me from the first by its charming 326 LETTER XXVI. sitdfittkm and the cordkdity of its inbabitiaits ; and it pic nie by its ambition, fer it aspires to be a metropolis, and it » making the due prepexations to aasume that ehaiaeter by the great works Vhii^ it is executmg or aiding to execute, canals, zailroadsy water-^works, huge mSls, work- shops, for which the £all in the river aSbrds an almost un- limited motive power.
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