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in its climate, productions, and inhabitants, that it may still be accounted geographically, if not politically, a part of this highly fayoured district.

Quitting Nice and returning to Brignolles, by the way we came, (See Itinerary No. 9) we shall make an excursion to the watering-place of Digne, deservedly celebrated for the almost miraculous cures which have been wrought, here on gun-shot wounds.

No. XII. From BRIGNOLLES to DIGNE, 12 posts; about 70 English miles.

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Barjols is a small town with a population of 3000 inhabitants, and has manufactures of paper, leather, and brandy. The next town which we see is Riez, agreeably situated on the Colostre, and celebrated for its antiquities, the most remarkable of which are four superb columns of the Corinthian order, about a pistol shot from the town; not far from this spot, in the midst of the fields, is a rotunda, composed of eight columns of the same order. Riez has manufactures of leather, and ropes. Population, 2950. Passing the valley of Colostre, we reach a vast plain covered with round stones, and here and there a nut and almondtree scattered along it. Before we arrive at Begude, the road continues to ascend, and for

the space of a mile, we traverse a forest of arbutuses, juniper-trees, box and broom. Reach Begude, afterwards Mezée, and at length

Digne, which is situated in the midst of meadows, olive plantations, and vineyards, on the left bank of the Bléone. The streets are steep, winding, and narrow, and the houses wretched; but there is a fine public walk. The mineral waters, so celebrated for the cure of gun-shot wounds, are situated about two miles from the town. Near this place is the crater of an extinct volcano. Digne has a trade in dried fruits, and very fine plums. Population, 3350. From Digne we return to Aix, keeping the road to Brignolles, as far as Riez.

No. XIII. From RIEZ to AIX, 7 posts, 381 English miles.

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Greoux is a little bourg, possessing mineral waters, and a population of 1200 inhabitants. Peyrolles, a small village near the Durance; here is a curious grotto, and a very pretty chateau. Descending a mountain, and traversing a wood, in a short time we arrive again at Aix.

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CHAPTER IV.

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From Aix to Montpellier. -Tarascon. cursion to Arles.- Description of Nismes and Montpellier. - From Montpellier to Toulouse.-Béziers.-Narbonne.-CarcasDescription of Toulouse.-Visit to Bagnères and Barréges, in the Pyrénées.Route from Toulouse to Bagnères de Bigorre.--Auch.-Tarbes.-Bagnères.-Barrèges.-Ascent of the Pic-du-Midi. — of Gavarnie.-Return to Barrèges.-Route to Bordeaux by Pau and Bayonne.

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No. XIV. From Aix to MONTPELLIER, 20 posts; about 112 English miles.

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THE route from Aix to Orgon, we have already traversed, and described in a former page (221). Quitting Orgon, we leave the road to Avignon on our right, and that to Marseilles on our left; passing over a plain bounded on the left by mountains, which form a fine contrast with the verdant meadows, vineyards and gardens, of the territory of Saint Remy,

INNS. (1) The Louvre, the Luxembourg, in the best situation. (2) White Horse, Hôtel du Midi, Petit-Paris, Luxembourg.

on our left. Saint Remy is a small town agreeably situated, and has a population of 3000 inhabitants. About half a mile from the town is the site of Glanum Livii, a town which exists only in name, where are two Roman monuments of great beauty, which have survived the fury of the revolution; there is a good road to them. The one is a mausoleum, the other is a triumphal arch; they stand a few yards distant from each other; but it does not appear, that there ever was any connexion between them. They were, probably, built at very different periods of the art, the sculpture and architecture of the arch being much more chaste and perfect than those of the mausoleum; the latter is composed of a pedestal, ornamented in basso relievo with combats of cavalry and infantry, over which hangs a net full of fishes, borne up by genii and masks; at each angle is placed an Ionic pilaster; this pedestal sustains a square mass, pierced through with an arch in each front, flanked by Corinthian columns; the architrave is charged with this inscription:

SEXLMIVLIEICFPARENTIBVSSVIS.

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That is, Sextus, Lucius, and Marcus, sons of Caius Julieius, erected this to their parents.»

The frieze is adorned with snakes and winged dragons; above, is a circular pedestal and colonnade of twelve fluted Corinthian pillars, short and thick in their proportions; the entablature is covered with a conical dome: under it appears a togated and a stolated figure

of very different stature, without heads, probably the effigies of the persons to whose memory this tomb was consecrated. The whole building is light and pleasing to the eye, but upon an examination of its separate members, will be found faulty in many of its proportions; the columns are too short for their diameter, the roof is too heavy; perhaps, as was frequently the custom of the ancient masters, the architect sacrificed all consideration for the minuter parts to the general effect; and calculated the proportions so as to produce a proper sensation on the beholder at some certain point of distance, where the situation of the ground, or the projection of adjacent buildings, obliged him to take his stand to view it.

The arch has suffered severely by time and dilapidations; all the upper part is destroyed, and only the gateway and a portion of the side-walls subsist. In both fronts the imposts, from which the arch springs, rest upon pilasters, and on each side of them are fluted columns of the Corinthian order, with their pedestals, which supported the general entablature, but scarce a third of the shafts remains. Between each pair of columns stands the figure of a slave, one male, the other female, and in the triangle above the arch are the fragments of two winged victories: the ceiling of the gateway is delicately wrought in hexagon compartments. All that is yet left of this venerable pile bespeaks the pure style of architecture, that flourished under

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