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IS 164.2 Story of an Emigrant.
doors lead to this. Glass windows were not used, but the
rooms received light from the open court, which could be
covered bv canvass as a protection against the sun and
rain. I measured the streets. They proved to be twelve
feet wide, with a four-foot-wide sidewalk on either side. The
paving consisted of boulders, with a flat surface about
twentv inches in diameter, and contained deep grooves
made bv the chariot wheels. The houses were standing in
their original condition, with fresco paintings on the walls
and statues in their proper niches. The temples with their
sacrificial altars, the theatres, the court, the council-house,
and all other public buildings were adorned with marble
pillars and choice works of sculpture. I saw a barbcr-shop
with chairs, niches for the soap and mugs, and the waiting
sofa. In a baker’s house I saw the oven, the dough-trough,
scales, and petrified loaves of bread. In a butcher shop
were a saw, a knife, and other tools. There were also
furniture, vessels for cooking, bowls, grain, pieces of rope, and
plaster of Paris casts of the human bodies which had been
found, generally prostrate, with the face pressed against the
ground. There lies a cast of a man with a pleasant smile
on his lips; he must have passed unconsciously from sleep to
death. But it is fruitless to try and describe this
remarkable plaec which has 110 parallel 011 the facc of the earth. I
heard the Swedish language spoken in this city of the dead,
and had the pleasure of making the acquaintance of
Alderman Tornquist and wife, from Winimerby, and a Doctor
Yiden and his daughter, from Ilernosand. Thus the living
meet among the dead, representatives of the new times
stand face to face with the dead of antiquity, children
of the cool North in the sunny South. What a wonderful
world this is, to be sure!
fhe 1 7th of September I embarked 011 board the steamer
La Scync, destined for Alexandria in Egypt. The warm,
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