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80 TRAVELS IN EUROPE.a balcony and portico of rude timber rather in the wane, with vmesluxuriantly creepinf; over and covering it; an undulated country,cut by deep water..:courses forming beds of gravel, and' constituting theusual roads; with here andthere a shaw, a transparent groveof pilletrees,complete the scenery~.The general c1imate of Catalonia i5humid. Thatsuch is the case, its surface ,proves. The vicinity of themountains, Montserrat itself,affords sufficientcause forthis conclusion.The showers come down like water-spouts.But the atmosphere in theintervals of them is delightful; and the beauty tpe~! add to the face ofnature past description.ltinerary.-CERVERA-LERIDA.LERIDA-the high castle whereof is seen for the previous day'sjourney.lVlontserrat also is not lost sight of by the traveller until hearrives here. This is a town of considerablebustle. The rural sceneryis here completely çhanged, nothing of, Gatalonia properlyin that respectremaining! ' This place nevercouldhave poss,essed in itself importanceequal to that,given itby theevents of which it hasbeen theœrena.Its site precludes it from having ever been a considerabletown.Here, however, the fate ofthe world was once, if not twice, brought toan issue.ls it possible for a person to look with apathy upon such ascene? or is he to treat his rising thoughts like the live eels in the pasty,and cry 'JO. Down, ~vantons", down?" The expansion ofthe mind is oneof the ,principal advantages to he looked for in travelling.Guicbardt'smap is accurate; and in his commentary upon this campaign, in a tractof country .he never saw, he hasproved his uncommon penetration.'1< One feature disfigures the landscape; the,PQtence. The gallows appears on every hill, at leastin every view. A person ignorant of politicalcauses would imagine hi~self where crin,es were veryniffuse, or law very cânèl~ive. In •pointâtllleaning ,thething .isharmless.