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TRAVE,LS' IN EUROPE.evidently feel that they are hors d'odeur de sainteté, and either shnnsociety, Of, the worst of them,give into the profligaeJ of the laity.One great deficiency certainly exists in the statisticalrelations ofFrance, and, in contradistin~tioüwith the N etherIands~where watercarriage; thab first of internalaccornmodations, abonnds; and this iscross communication, and conveyance in general.Badness of roads,wretchedness of vehic1es, and weakness of cattle, constitutea heavy deficiency.It i8 evident throughout, that whatever capitaliFrance pros·geSSeS is vested intrade, and perhaps principally internaI commerce ; butin any case the effects are equally deleterious whereagriculture has notptcceded in laying à foundation for the superstructure. Great stateempirics have adopted each his opposite mode of treatment, and theworst carried the triumph.One maintained theside ofthe plough. theother that of the sail; but while they discussed the patient sank.fact, no great· national impulse could be givèn or reeeived .. ih ~itherdirection. Thus, among thern, l~rance i8, as we noW seè it, denudedànddepopulating~in penury, languidand feeble in war, and e\'en incapa.ble of rallying in time of peace.InThe tract lIere unrler consideration isprohably the w'orst specimen that this great country affords.itcertainly has many stages to proceed through in order lo àttain improvemcnt.Population, system, industry, capital, and sècurityinalltheir powerful combimltions, wiU be unavailing withoutthe fdsteringbànd of time.About Lyons, inded, the cattle appear better; but thisis ratber due to the soil tban any arnelioration in the breed and ini'·provement, which the :French landholder is by no means competent to.It is usual here to proceed southwards by water. ~t is by no meansthe best mode for seeing the country; but the conveniences which itpresents here are ndt to bê rejected; and wh,ile we glide clown thestream, the progress appears l1;ttheradoze than a journey.