{"newspaper_name": "The Wilmingtonian, and Delaware register.", "edition": "01", "page": "p1", "byline": ""}
America, are so limpid, and so cool, that
bathing in them forms the principle luxury
of the natives. The Banks of the rivers are
shaded by trees of gigantic size, and under
their outrageous shade, the morning SAL
utations are not, as with us,-"The air is
cold ."]"or warm," or "we have had frost"
These children of nature ask of each other,
SIS the 7vater cooler than it was last even
ing?" 1t is their pleasure to bathe when the
watcris 90 degrees below the atmospheric
air. Baron Humboldt thus describes the
evening recreation of the Cumaneans.


1--WE every night visited respectable so
ciety, in the suburbs of Guageria. In tine
moonlight nights, chairs were placed in the
water.-The men and women lightly cloth
ed, as in some of the baths in the porth OF
Europe, and the families and strangers as


senble in the bower, and pass some time IN
smoking segars, and talking of the seasons,


&c. and particularly of the luxurious hab-


its of the Ladies of Caracas and the Havan"


ma"