Market day at Lausanne - streets crowded with women with baskets on their backs. Strolled out to the different parts of the town to get to the upper part where the cathedral and Chateau are situated have to ascend long flights of steps. The former building, a venerable Gothic structure dating from the 10th century and at present devoted to the Lutheran-Protestant worship. Contained a number of monuments - one of Pope Felix V who abdicated the tiara. A little corner is occupied with the monuments of the English who have died here, mostly of the last century. The last and handsomest is to the memory of Henrietta, wife of Stratford Canning - English ambassador to Switzerland in l8l7. But, it is not the buildings that are the charm of Lausanne - its beautiful situation facing the south, the pleasing variety of water, mountains, fertile plains and villages interspersed -

Its inhabitants have an air of respectability and is the capital of the canton de Vaud - with an active little commerce of wine & grain. The produce of the neighborhood - its population over 12,000. Near the church of St. Francis is a house pointed out to me as the one occupied by the author of the decline and fall. At the table d'hote two English ladies and a gentleman their brother who have passed the winter here also a Col. Shaw - venerable in years and infirm -