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St Louis is a large & well built city of about 280,000 inhabitants. In the year 1836 it was only a French village of about 2000 souls, almost all of whom were Canadians, & Canadian half-breeds. In those days, the wild Indian was close upon it. Now the French & the Indians are both alike obliterated, & railways reach between five & six hundred miles beyond it. It contains many Churches, some of which are built in very good taste & style. I never saw red-brick anywhere else used so pleasingly & effectively in pointed? architecture, or in the spire of one of the Churches in this city. I was also much struck with a stone Church, the tower of which was not yet completed. Each window in the side aisles had a second window over it, in the form of a kind of window head, or marigold. The main aisle had clerestory windows. All the windows throughout were filled with stained glass. This fine Church belonged to the Episcopal unclear. There are six Epixcopal Congregations in St Louis. I have become acquainted with a Cleryman who had just returned from a long tour through Europe & the East. It was strange on the West bank of the Mississippi, on a spot where Red men had sold their furs, & smoked their pipes, in the memory of the speaker himself to hear expressed the opinion, "that "a man of culture & thought had not completed his education, till "he had seen with his own eyes the scenes on which the great events of "man's past history had been enacted."