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8 TRAVEL~ IN EUROPE.one could, on his return home, tender to the world a dissertation on hisown peccant humours and calI it his Tour, or think that minute detailsof enduredprivations should constitute an interesting literaryperformance.One very desirable object for the traveller previous to his setting outis, to get depicted on his mind a good idea of the country through whichheis to pass, so as to possess, in a knowledge of the spotwhereon hestands, a recognition of aIl its relative objects around, fat .and near.Military men will mpst readiIy comprehend theextent ofthis idea, andof the. clue affordédto the pursuit·()f it by the courses of the .rivers. Butthe train of ideas, it suppIies,ought to interest in some degree all pérsons;for a knowledge of the surface of a co~ntryshouldnaturally precedethe investigation of ils products.Those who travel from our country appear little habituateq to viewmatters under thisrelation; but it isby no means so.withtheenJightenednations ofthe continent; more especiallywith.our rivaIs the French.80 much of militaty habit and speculation enter into thecharacter ofthe circles of fashion, that themind is· never torpid. But theother pursuitsof mental investigation in tO)Jography and geology ;summit andinterior levels;distinctions ofsoils; aIl the grand outlinesand minorieatures of the face of nature are most readily and permanently im..pressed upon the memory by a due attention to the courses of the funningwaters, which, however irregular theymay appear on first view, onegreat harmopizing system will be found to pervade., AlI ofwhicb iscluly omitted in what is emphatically called the traveller's map; whichcontains only the post towns and the connecting routes; as, for instance,the following:St. Omers-Bethunè-Arras-Bapaceme~Peronne-St.Quentin-La Feresur Oise.CRECY; AGINCOURT, and FONTENOY, aIl object~of interest loB.