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168 SECOND JOURNEY THROUGHFRANCE IN 1814.in too many other Cases offar more importance, a man cannot know Hievalue of the thing until it is lost to him.here,-al1 are admirable.:Features, tints, buildings,In point of foreground, too, the green flat islands, the banks of bright white grave1, the streams of intervening deepblue water,-aJ1 give a picture of much eharacter; contrasted as it isby the uniformly yellow hills behind., At the sallowsare still green.maf'king a degree in ctimate.Mulberry trees here begin t6 make their appearance,A treOJend01l8 vent de bize from the north, or betw~~en nOftf.\l"'anQ'~IJLSt.lowered the thermometer to 87;· but the human frame (could itbegra­'duated) much lower.inclination, bear testimony to the despotismspllere.Thetrees on the eastside of the Rhone, intheirThe boat having to deliver mel'chandise, 'anctliore:dother terms, more properly got aground:~X'ertionsof a numerous body·emhedded in the sandpayments (fourteen francs pel' headto Avignon, be it observed) lbad,with a prudf'nt foreeast,shortlyafter its departure from Lyons. Somethi,ng nowhegan. t'6 he cireulatedabout difficulties and dangers attendant on the descent .of the river;and in order to carry conviction home .Qfl the subject,.our Pald.nurasnow ran us ashore for the second 'time.Much attention has been paid to this rivec in throwing,if, b~ obliquewalls from its banks, the violent drift of itscurrents•.. The work isexceUeptly executed, as is requisite for resistance of 50 formidable aforce.,Adjacent country on each side, vu}eJ'arid~telrracecj,ofcorn; sheep and cattle tended