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'rRA VELS IN EUROPE.,ciple is so obvious, and construction sa uniform, that someapalogynecessary for adding ta thenumber.as observed, ,a link ~nBut in this particular instance"the sciénce presents itself in a specimen rare in,itself, and in a situation hitherto, passed over by travellers, not in theirusual \Vay, en COitrant, but by a refinement of negligence more justlyto be defined en t!autant,. ft has been thought necessary bere to, presentit to the reader in those points of view most capabte of 'conveying th@d,ue ideas both general and particular.To the imagination asomewhatderogatory picture may be &upplied bytllat of. the lofty L'fOnt waU, afJ'a un~formleveJ, of a long s-traight street of brick-wOIik, witillarge cloorsand windows, and flot yet roofed in.Bad as this may be, what ideascopperplate supplies are yet more inadequate, for the subject i8 toC}extensive for papel'.Baths in the tOWJ:l, and reservoirs ihtheneighbourhood,(?omplete what the masters of the world thought was requi...sites to endure life in their selected stations in those !countries, the nativesof which they eondescendèd to honour by tbeil~ presence, enlighte!H bytheir example, and .gratify by tileir domination.,He who in travellinghas to struggle and wrangle with contelltiotls vent~ros(innkeep~rs),andcontumacious cflrrieros (muleteeFs), win often,. in spite of himself, find:his pen infected with his own spirit of ünpatience, and be compelled t@write (otherwise than as he posts, here at least) CUf'rente calamo.A penmanor a draughtsman, uuder the eyes of those who frequent Spanisla'f)entas,is eyed, too, with a jealousy little less than what would beconveyed by one of the profession of the blacJ~ art. Solitary effart"and an autumnal sun, too, rather cOlJntervail the enthusiasrn of anti..quarian 10re, and campel the tmveller, every now and then, ta' casta 10nging eye towards his journey's end. A week passed h~re wouldampJy gratify the inquisitive investigator duly pro\rided withthe ~~;a'"phernalia of seience and local matter. Rest and comfor-t bec~in.e