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10 TRAVEL8 IN EUROPE.Thus too, none of tlIat mutual action and re-action of circulatory wealthupon landed property ; of population upon produce, which mark theapproach to a considerable or thriving town in England. The crop atthe edge of the glacis of the tdwn here is as hungry as any beycmd thereach of its shells.Indeed, if we recul' ta history fOl' information ,toguide us through the present tract of country, a person would be lèdthereby ta suppose that the places aIl around him werébuilt for nopurpose but to be besieged.Yetthesè were once the seats ofindu,stryand manufactures, which long ago frightened by the ravings of ambitionframArras and Cambrai, have obtainedthe secul'ity tocy requireunder ungenial climates. The government of France has ever been bad,operatively, though not morally; for it certainly did not meditate a na..tional suicide.But its system has been attended with aIl the effect ofone; and when it decided for manufacture (which it could notkeep)in preference to .agriculture, (which, perhaps, under iis system it coulanot obtain,) the intended superstructure,whafever height it reachècl,was raised bythe exhaustion of its shallow foundations; this statisticaledifice resemblingherein the national metropolis, though 11.ot in permanency.Qne word as ta. the picturesque of this country.pOOl', and the outlines are hardeThe fore;.ground isIn'a "fard, the reverse of England:those who pave a taste for the beauty ofna,ture will understand this,and the disappointment conveyed in it.At La Fere surOise a principal river is touched upon, and givesthetraveller an opportunity of revising his topography.Laon.-This place is marked in an extensive horizon by its situationon a }:ligh bluff hill *, resembling a h~,ad-landat sea;oneoflhose fragt