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THE QUAYS,RAMPART, RTe., AT LYONS. 137Les Plates (floating mills); work-shops; lavatories; boats and bargesloaded with coals, timber, corn, stone, fruit, and 60 forth, as called for bythe wants, ind ustry, and speculation of man.On the land side of thesequays, against the cliffs, they are, as said, now busily building houses,running them \lp to the height'of a hundred feet, tied by powerful beams(obtained from the romantic country the Chevalier Hamilton so enthusiasticallydescribes). But they build at half computation expense,for their houses have no back walls. A precipice of dry aIJuvial sandwith veins of gravel renders aIl impervious, and aH human aid unnecessaty.N ever was so much capital expended on a foundation of solittle itJtrinsic vaJue: at land at least! a capital, too, that will pay itsinterest weIl. Sorne of this natural rampart is laid out in the Chinesetaste; for circumstanées producecoincidences in this article :-terraces,inc1ined plane ascents from platform to platform; these latter plantedwith ornalllental trees, in the number of which the weeping-wiilow tastefullypredominates; and gay buildings for enjoying the magnificenliprospect which presents its~lf in front, as weIl as along the course of theriver. \iVhen these trees are so grown as to overshadow the roofs of the:>adjacent houses, the effect wiU he ascurious as pleasing; for they willappear togrow from the very houses themselves. AIl illdicates goodtaSte, rational speculation, and sound judgement; and the citizen oftheworld feels a gratification in th~ idea that such foundations wiU not disappoint,based as they are upon the anticipated prosperityof apopulationofonehundrpd thousand souls, for whose recreation theyare laidouL This chain of heights'attains to four hundred feet, and extendsto the junction of the two rivers.The ranges of houses on them, detachedhowever, extend over their whole face, each with its plot ofground.VOL. Il.It 8eems as if determine~that not a foot of vertical superficiesT