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138 SECOND JOURNEY THROUGH FRANCE IN 1814.should remain unbrought iuto account.Most of these houses are of~everal stories~. The prospect up the riveris very grand,to the magnificent (In externalappearance, and from a distant point of view,) mansion calledDela Pape, on the height. Beyond this are the projecting points of thepredomioating western bank, over awillow fiat by the river side ;be..yond these are the mountains, and their delightfulaccotnpanÎl:nent-auaccurnulated mass of wool-pack clouds.'The opposite oreastern shore isa tract; of aUuviaL.meadow, builtover in detached tenements too.Bere abthismotnent (Decetnber 1)the herbageis shooting freely; as wen it may, when, in animated life,the horse-dung fly is active, and the litt]e wàll-lizard putshimselfoutto bask. Thermometer,mid-day, in the shade, 54:--at six in the evening;in the open air, 53. The mountains to thesouth-east are nowcovered with snow totheir visible bases. The eastern bank of theSoaneis also cornpletelyfaced with aninclinedwall'ofhammered stone.A~greatbustleprevailsall alOng thesè qüaJs; and llow,.atfivè .o'e1pckin.theevening, the citizens,such as stone..cutters, continue at work.Thus~too, in theopenl country, at sixin the tmorning the Jokes of' oxen)Vere going totheir work'a;.;6elt1; and nearly three hours advahtagemlthe side of active life lS possessed over us Hyperhoreans, who ha'~e to.fetch it up by sorne countervailing·effort of ingenuity or labour.Thç river atthe jupctionof tne'two contributory streamspresents atruly noble appearance.---Some may say it holds out invitation as theresidence of agod.This; however, to otihers will hardlyjustify the 1nterpolation'ofan alien-and in snch an uncongenial location too! atown-hall! Enough to cllill aU hope frompoetical ideas.-····vVherebefo~'e1l1entioned, however, this n0ble streatla appears atlea.steiglit hUll,,: