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LITHQLOG'Y, VEHICULATION, ETC. 139dl'ed feet wide.'I\vo bridges are over the Rhone.The stone bridgehas twelve main arches, and two annexed ones on the east side.TheSoane has seven bridges, not an at this moment passable, but in pro..gress of heing so. The Rhone has also an occasional pont volant. Thewooden bridges taketo1J, being private capital.Those smitten with the love of lithology will hereàboutfind where..with to indulge themselves; and amongstothermatters, a stone whichrings when struck, like basaIt.Another of black hue,icontaining thepatella ungarica, (vulgo limpet,) with fragments of oyster much decayed,andèockle in fragments, 'but undecayed (Barl'ingtonJslusus naturœ,)and unœîisèêJlaured;wlll give them something to think, upon.Tn.e' 'toulage ..vehiièulationis very active here,. advertising itselfforevery direction-Italy, Switzerland; and Amsterdam.The ingenuity of the handicraft· peoplé here is very striking. Whatefegantarticles of furniture, sets of drawing~room chairs for instance,are wrought, chieHy bythe hands of WOIneu and children, out of scrapsand fragments of hazle-stick and split osiers!A remarkable precocityappears in thechildren :---a boyof twelve years of age superintendedand directed the whole procedure of a forge, the putting the entireringiof iron round .a coach wheehon a matter of emergency ;hi8 mother,thewidmy, contemplatinghim during the process with an .eyeofadmiration and exultation. Anotherbo.n ofithe sameage, ismetonhorseback, his viaticum andparapluietiedto his saddle,apparent]y arich farmer's son, directing with theeaglé eye ofa general the route 'Ofa string ofcorll carts.A very fine peasantryis seen thrOiugh the wholeofthe route or tract of country betweenParis and l.yons.-.Bh..egabardin"es,like those of the Kentishpeasantry, hut probably adopted fromthatofFlanders, have become the costume hepe"and agood one theyare.'Vith the exception of the ear-ring, the British and .French pea..T2