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36 SECOND JOURNEY THRoVGH FRANCE IN ,1814.principle: but botb are weH; it is cakulatio~ tEal'justifies thèséèl'?,,­stinctions, and the distinctions prove that this true principle is in usage.Their taste here, in this respect, is greatly improved'in 'latter yearsJ,and this derives aid from the excellence of the'materials they possess:l\t'.It is neither Egyptian nol' Greek, and yet is very handsome; in theirarches nearly as fiat as their imposts, lightpilasters, and very ohtuseangledpediments. No where does moretru'e architectural' faste pre::'sent itself.-The quays now extend northwards for a mile and a haItbeyond the ancient town barrier, and on the ,vest har1:k ôf flie ri~er.'l'hese are aUfaced ,vith hammeredstone,~'n an indined wall oftwent}feet àeight, with landing-stairs and mooring-rings; making in aIl neaflyseven thousand feet of walled tluay-workbeyond the town.rfhis new W01'k. is planted with rows of tl~e platanus, about fhe~ root'3of which trees they are at ihis season judiciously r'emoving tlle earth.By the luxuriance of its shoots the tree is conipletely at home inthis cliinate. L'âUéedes peuplie1's composes part af this J