I will now bid adieu to my friends and readers until we meet again.

MARGARET FULLER

CITY OF SPRING GARDEN.

I am at present domiciled with my excellent friend Abraham Lincoln, in the beautiful city of Spring Garden.  This place contains between sixty and seventy thousand inhabitants, a majority of whom are engaged in literary and artistic pursuits.  It might vie with ancient Athens for the wealth of mind which is concentrated within its precincts.  It is not compactly built, the city covering about thrice the surface of ground that would be occupied by one on earth of the same number of inhabitants.  The streets are handsome, the pavements being covered with a gay enamel which is formed by dampening a certain yellow powder, which, when hardened, shines like amber.  They are laid out in circles, surrounding a large park of several acres, which forms the centre of the city.  This park is embellished with trees and flowering plants of every description, and does not differ materially from the extensive parks to be found on earth, except in its management.

Booths are erected at the various gates, which are supplied with fruits and confections free to all who present a ticket to the keeper.  These tickets are furnished by the city authorities to those who desire them.  This class is composed chiefly of children, and of grown persons who are incompetent to supply by their labor their own wants.  Here they can walk through the pleasant grounds, rock themselves in swings, which are numerous, and, when weary with exercise, their appetites stimulated by the refreshing air, which circulates through its hills and dales as freely as in the open country, they can apply for refreshments at any one of the booths or tables within the park.  A very delicious drink manufactured from the exudence of a flower not known on earth may here be procured.  The grounds are provided with various other apparatus for amusement and pleasure, among which are elegantly-formed sleds on galvanic runners, which glide over the ground with swiftness most exhilarating to the senses.  Air carriages are also furnished, and, in short, nothing is wanting for the pleasure and entertainment of the visitors who throng daily the extensive avenues.

Forming an outer circle to the park is the main thoroughfare of the city.  The streets, as I have said, are laid out in graduated circles which increase in circumference as they recede from the centre.  The outermost circle is bordered by trees, which form a natural wall.  This city might be called the circle of palaces, from the numerous magnificent edifices which adorn it at every point.

The buildings are of a light, graceful style of architecture, adapted to the climate and the out-door life which the people generally lead.

The street facing the park is devoted to the display of commodities and creations of the spirit world and its inhabitants.