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144 SECOND JOURNEY THROUGH FRANCE IN 1814.drama~ Superstitions formed a part of the imports, and nodoubt a readyvent was found for their distribution. Not to spe,ak of the Tiber-llereon the Seine we have the Isle Louvier, with the renigmat;icalandallegoricalideas of the wolf nurse-(inde Louvre.)The dimensions of this city may be taken, diametrically, as four Englishmiles by three; the lines striking through La Cité and the site ofNôtre Dame, placed probably on the original sacriticia.l ,stone. Theprimitive navigators repaid themselves for their trouble by barter; e~portedsuperstitions, and brought home ~richreturnoffabulo~lse~aggeratio}~and mystical romance, to travel round the world inother directions.Population aggregated and ultimately fixed itself here, andParis has finalJy become what we now seejt. Rome's proces's, toaUappearance, was the same, but at a much anterior period; ,and a similar,one may with probability be as;cribed to Lqudon,ofwhich its ançienttower may be considered the nucleus. The"Boulevardes corre-1spand with our London Wall, Barbican, and the precincts of as, mucllas could be placed within the defence of towers and ctu:tai,ns,flnd theBarrières are a,nalogous to our Temple- alld Bolborn-Bars;' wbichwere 'Ilotinchlded within the fortifying system.The picturesque, as relé;ttive to a city, has been alluded to: it