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i'AVELS IN EUROPE.remarkably pure, present themselves to the traveller's observation aUaround.The goat is the main dependence for the menage, t() the communityin general: and the pigeon-house is probably the chief prop of .thechateau; for the privilege of this species of domestic stock is mosttenaciously maintained here; perhaps chiefly on account of the manure,-avaluable article for the vineyard. Diminutive as this speciesof stock may strike us to be, ,it is not insignificant whenwe consider ithere; when we recollect that it takes aIl the .trouble of maintenance, aserious task, u po~ itself; and that this is effected at the cost of theneighbourhood.Taking aU this into consideration, the pigeoJ}-house isno trifling oJ:>ject, as indeed the 5t3.te of the larder at the inn sufficient1,proves.NARBONNE is celebrated for its honey ; the insect which produces it5eems to be the only thing useful to man, capable of derivinga\l e~ist-;ence from the vegetation of its neighbourhood.Must therc not havebeen sOIlle great change here in climate, and soil too, so far as vegetationis concerned, since the days of the Romans?Would any peopleDOW bestow so much time, cost, and trouble, as they didhere, conlputin~upon so pOOl' a return as what we now see ?Due time is given to thetraveller to e"xplore in what direction histaste leads him, because, as posting is not in pl'actice on this route,. he{nust hire a voiturier to conveyhim through his journey.· He is herebyoccasionalJy obliged to pass sorne of the ~oursof his day at an ion f)finferior accommodations; but this mode is undoubtedly prefe~ble fortllC main views of travelling.He may arrange and seUle with hisvoiturier for aU, at the end of the journey, anù thusget l'id .. of thatdrawback on the pleasures of travelling,-the necessity ofwraD;g\ingtwice a day.