. Little journeys abroad . nalfort commands a wide view of theMediterranean. The most celebrated Moorish cafe isthat outside of the Mustapha gate of theJardin dEssai, just beside a perfect Moor-ish fountain built some three hundredyears ago, and which has often been asubject for the artists brush. Here, ifone is a man, one can stop for coffee, and AT THE JOHN BELL FOUNTAIN. 231 couscous; but if one is a woman, one mustpass by on the other side, and only lookover to study the Moorish architectureand admire the effect of the trees hangingfrom the hill behind over the arched roof;or else revisit
. Little journeys abroad . nalfort commands a wide view of theMediterranean. The most celebrated Moorish cafe isthat outside of the Mustapha gate of theJardin dEssai, just beside a perfect Moor-ish fountain built some three hundredyears ago, and which has often been asubject for the artists brush. Here, ifone is a man, one can stop for coffee, and AT THE JOHN BELL FOUNTAIN. 231 couscous; but if one is a woman, one mustpass by on the other side, and only lookover to study the Moorish architectureand admire the effect of the trees hangingfrom the hill behind over the arched roof;or else revisit it in fancy, as I did thatafternoon while sitting at the John Bellfountain. INVALIDS, CHURCHES, ANDCEMETERIES. M Y title soundssombre enough,but no sequencewas meant to beconveyed in thewording; for al-though the inva-lids visited thechurches, they didnot always end inthe the contrary,they seemed toimprove from daytoday, — one lady GROVE NEAR ALGIERS. gaining twenty-one pounds in weight during her winter in. INVALIDS, CHURCHES, AND CEMETERIES. 233 Algiers, another leaving entirely cured, andothers improving so rapidly that we sawsome of them at the theatre witnessing therepresentation of Les Voyages de , given by M. Coquelin and histroupe. The dainty humor and refinedacting were probably more beneficial thanrepeated visits to the mosques, and two accounts of the adventurein the Swiss crevasse where le petitsapin saved or did not save his life,according to which lover he was speakingto, did more good, by provoking honestlaughter, than the doctors long-windedharangues. It is said that Algiers is ahealthful, cheerful resort for the consump-tive, for the dyspeptic, and for the hypo-chondriacal, nervous, and ennuye of everydegree. It was pleasant to see theimprovement in the faces we encounteredevery day, to see ladies at first confined totheir rooms able to drive about in donkey- 234 LITTLE JOURNEYS ABROAD. chairs, and Russian princes recover
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