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150 SECOND JOURNEY THROUGH FRANCE IN 1814.pleasiQgly and peculial'ly situated, flan~ed by woods cutting the horh~@nwi-th a bold~y-markedhere isstrongly undulated.outline, and altogethcr picturesque. 'rheeountryThelitbology presents gravel; notsllexasheretofore, but rubble, just sueh as i8 seen ol1sea.,sl1ores, intike mixtureand proportions; a]soporous stone, and arnorpflOuss3Bd..stone: sub..,soil whitish clay.hazel (Deeember) is now in b]os80m.LA PALISSE.Mountains eome into view in thesouth-east.TheA post, and also an œuberge;jntlre yard whereofjisamost superb baptismal font of the n.LJ;i"'i:>b U!fltn~ i$itawtuI'tirj'f;mil!it;l1'iflte':iiis.TUi:lipable of conta·ining as·muchas a bogsheaci;now'serving, (devolutionindeed !) as ailrinking-trough for cattle!teau.Hard ny this place is a cha..;Approaching it, fern and broorn shrubbery, birch in the timbertribe, predominating, indicate the sandy soil about toshow .itselp, yield"l'ing. only rye, and too often pOOl' crops·cven of" that;hardlYiveturningseed, and wbicn in England could not reipay oultivation:...........but.be itre..collected bow little the :Erench farmer has·· topay for hiscultiva~i!Qili.Î.The lithology offersuot .only massive.b~utstratified;/gt·anitte,+SOimewhereof i8 red; and of this substance.,the..;$Qil, . it may be aUowed thename, seems·the decomposition. Horn-stoneisals:ô seen. '1'0 the southof La Palisse is indeed.»;,what rarelyoccllfS, laminous gnulite !A fine breed of cattleir,resentsitsdfhere, indraught buHocksyokedby the horns, and eRcb weighing, if fl~Hy fattelled, not less th.msevenhundred .French pounds.'Vbether the },'rench farmer is able to l'aisethem to their full profit l).lay beyet a problem.; but·jf he do 11ot, it iaDot from want of" the inclination to make the most of" whut he haseTwo cows OP thesmall size (for hore are obviously different breeds),their dugs drawn to a degree of exhaustion of the proceclureof which