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ROUTE FROM M(:\':);NlfPELIERTO 'fllE PYRENEES.31whenLollls:KIV. was at. what he was pleased to term.Jhe height of hisglory! This part of France appearsJ)tlver to have recovered the effectsofa political sore.-always longin cicatrizing,__allexpatriation.The public work. called the HIItou. of this town has an interest,in so far asthecut'stoneused init. aJ)and~stouefunof marine exuvire,chieftyifllot entirely cocldeif"'shens~sjhowswhat theintflrior of the earthis here composed of. This fiat tract. down. to/the snore.sof the Mediterranean,l'rom its low level, warmth of c1imate, and exemption frornthe intrusion of humanindustry, should present a rich, and, it is probab)c,little explored harvest to the botanist; but to the geologist its pro..mlsesare h"t very s.canty. Botany seems as. rouch the national predilecjtion··{lfthe:Freneh,as the last-mentioned science is of the Germans.Each i8 good in ilS Way, but perhaps they are not perfectly compatible;at least the sameindividualcould;not do justice to/both , p.UJ.rsuits. Thelatter requires a bold seope of thought, such as is possessed by thenation whieh has gonedeepest into it, (throwing. a cloud of mystery aHaround,) while the former caUs, on the eOlltrary, for the minutest in­,restigatious. Ibis hard, when the mind is im pressedwith those extensivespeell!ations, to whic11 geological studies (in the .great book ofNature) lead, to brin.g it to-bend to the minutil'e of botany ; yet it is butjusttosay,.tbatthe slores. ()ftheJatter are of more immediate importaÎl.cètcrhuman