The churches seem generally falling into decay in the country.

We passed one which had been recently repaired.

I have noticed, however, several young persons, men as well as women, earnestly employed in their devotions, in different churches, both in Paris and elsewhere.

Nothing which I have seen in this city has interested me at all like the Jardin des Plantes, with the living animals, and the Museum of Natural History which it includes.

Scarcely could I refrain from tears of admiration at the sight of this apparently boundless exhibition of the wonders of the creation.