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T<strong>RAV</strong>ELS IN EUROPE.Itinerary.-FRAGA. Upon the CINCA another JJ;Iountain-torrent.PXNALVA, BUJARALOS, LA PUEBLA, SARAGOSSA.SARAGossA.-The general officer commanding here is of the nameof Bagot, descended from oneof the Irish familieswhich fol1owed thehopeless fortunes of their master hither. The respectable sitùationsThe military positions.Proxima rupes (that nearest to l/eritZ4)Signa tenet Magni-(Pompeii) nec C~sarcolle minoreCastra levat : medius dirimlt tentoria gurges.The hillock wltick Vl'ougltt on the action.Luce novâ eollem subito eonseendere eursu,Qui medins tutam eastris dirimebat Ilerdam,Imperat-----,----The diversion if the waters.Nequid Sieoris repetitas,audeat undis,Spargitur in suleos, et, seisso ,gurgite rivis,Dat pœnas majoris aqure.The general view rif the country.Explicat hine tellus campos effusa patentes,Vix oenio prendente modum---It might have been supposed that after a topographical description, so positiv~ and of so manycenturies standing, misconception on the subject of the face of Nature could not have,existed inthe present day: yet we still hear of the mountain-fastnesses of the Catalans.The author was not aware at the time these notes were written that his friend G. H. Hall, Esq.had bestowed sorne attention on this subject. Those who feel an interest ther~in willbe gratifiedby reading an article ,witten by his learned friend in the supplement to the second volume of theMilitary Panorama, where the catnpaign in fluestion is succinctly but most ably treated'~ Theauthor'believes Guichardt's observations had not fallen in Ml'. H.'s way. It seems probable thatMontserrat and its skirts form the hasis of aIl these accounts of mountain,..fastnesses affordil1grefuge for defeated troops. They are mere words of course in a military dispatch. The naturalist,at least, may look for them any where else in vain.

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