Having left this at an hotel, I wandered about till it should be time for breakfast.

After breakfast I meant to dress and call upon Dr.Cheron.
The morning air was clear and cool.

The sun shone brilliantly, and was reflected back with dazzling vividness from long vistas of high white houses, innumerable windows, and gilded balconies.

Theatres, shops, cafes, and hotels not yet opened, lined the great thoroughfares.
Triumphal arches, columns, parks, palaces, and churches succeeded one another in apparently endless succession.

I passed a lofty pillar crowned with a conqueror's statue--a palace tragic in history--a modern Parthenon surrounded by columns, peopled with sculptured friezes, and approached by a flight of steps extending the whole width of the building.