. The Southern states of North America: a record of journeys in Louisiana, Texas, the Indian territory, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia and Maryland . andOffice, the Gov-ernors Mansion,are large and com-modious, but notspecially interest-ing. But a touchof the grand oldSpanish architect-ure has crept into the construction of the Insane Asylum,stone so abundant in that region; and the edifice, standing in a great park,whose superb trees seem to have been cultured for centuries, rather than t
. The Southern states of North America: a record of journeys in Louisiana, Texas, the Indian territory, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia and Maryland . andOffice, the Gov-ernors Mansion,are large and com-modious, but notspecially interest-ing. But a touchof the grand oldSpanish architect-ure has crept into the construction of the Insane Asylum,stone so abundant in that region; and the edifice, standing in a great park,whose superb trees seem to have been cultured for centuries, rather than to bemere gifts of nature, is very beautiful. It is, however, overcrowded with unfortunates, and the States imperativeduty is to build another asylum at once. Under the rich glow of the Februarysun the white walls of the structure formed a delicious contrast to the foliage ofthe live oaks near. at hand, making it seem more like a temple than like theretreat of clouded reason. In wandering through the wards I came suddenlyupon a group of idiot girls, seated on benches in a niche before a sunny poor creatures cowered silently—grimacing now and then—as I stoodgazing upon them, when suddenly one or two of them, doubtless excited by the. Ihc Statf. Capitol — Austin which is built of the soft gray sand- 128 TEXAS STATE INSTITUTIONS.
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