THE HERALD.
LANCASTER:
TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 5,1870.
By J. C. and J. Cover.
ACROSS THE CONTINENT!
Dover to Paris and the South of France.
A mien* -Progreas and Stupidity Relic* or
Peudallaut-Preach Agriculture Vine*
and Vineyard*—Peaaant Life- Fruit*
Hurr-Mone* Huln* Pari*.
iu iLe night I cross the British
Channel in a steamboat, from Dover
to Calais, where those ticketed for
Paris aro to dclaj' till sevon in the
morning of January fifth. At the
station there arc cushioned lounges
providod for passengor* awaiting de
parture of trains, and I lio down at
full length and nlvop till morning.
Atsovon I enter the coach for Paris
—those car compartments aro called
coaches, not inappropriately, ns they
rosemblo tbo old fashioned stage
coach. Soon light dawns, and tho
auu rises from beyond the heights of
France, that same ruling light of
day which, four hours lator, is to
•hlno upon America. My Portuguese
friond and a genteel stranger, with
myself, monopolize tho compartmont,
and an hour passos in silent reflec
tion. A trifling occurrence initiates
acquaintance, and tho stranger
proves to bo an English clergyman
on his way to till u consular chap
laincy at Bagueres, in the South ot
France. Intimacy ripens and time
passed most agreeably in quiet con
versation, and in tho constant grati
fication of our curiosity in tho novel
objects presented till wo reach
Amiens, about seventy miles from
Paris, where by some cause or other
we separated, but meet agaiu at tho
Paris custom house, after which wo
kept company to tho cud ot his jour-
ney.
