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rebuilt in a few years, while no cost can replace the Litter ; and a reflection some- 

 what similar must have passed through the mind of Napoleon, had he lived to 

 witness the present broken, patched, and miserable aspect of one of the most 

 striking and indispensable features of his triumphal arch, and to see in prospect, 

 that even when the last victims to the destructive attacks of the despised Scob/ti — 

 foes which, from his ignorance of Entomology, had conquered even him — should 

 have been cut down, and the unsightly gaps attempted to be filled up by planting- 

 young trees in their place, neither he nor his sucfcflior could ever witness in this 

 the proudest monument of his reign the mingled splendour and grace which it 

 would have exhibited, if approached, as he meant it to have been, tlirough a full- 

 grown, entire, and majestic avenue. 



