I begin to perceive the commerce of St.Louis.We went upon the levee this morning, and for miles the edge was bordered with the pipes of steamboats, standing like a picket-fence.

Then we came to the wholesale streets, and saw the immense stores for dry-goods and crockery.
"To-day I have heard of a scientific association called the 'Scientific Academy of St.Louis,' which is about a year old, and which is about to publish a volume of transactions, containing an account of an artesian well, and of some inscriptions just sent home from Nineveh, which Mr.
Gust.

Seyffarth has deciphered.
"Mr.Seyffarth must be a remarkable man; he has translated a great many inscriptions, and is said to surpass Champollion.

He has published a work on Egyptian astronomy, but no copy is in this country.
"Dr.Pope, who called on me, and with whom I was much pleased, told me of all these things.

Western men are so proud of their cities that they spare no pains to make a person from the Eastern States understand the resources, and hopes, and plans of their part of the land.
"Rev.Dr.Eliot I have not seen.