Scenery, &c. of some paris of Frances 169 
Nismes has some antiquities in excellent ga 
The amphitheatre is much more entire than the m, 
but it is much smaller as it could contain but 17000 peo- 
ple, while it is believed that 107,000 couldat once witness the 
exhibitions in the latter. The ‘ Maison Sarcée’ is a beautiful 
temple, which is dediested to Caius and Lucius adopted sons 
of Augustus. Ithas thirty fluted eg columns. The 
Pont du Gard, about tweive miles from Nismes, is part of an 
aqueduct, which formerly supplied ae with water, from a dis- 
tance, measured by the windings of the water course, of 26 
miles. It extends across a river from one high hill to anoth- 
er. It bas three rows of arches one above another, and rises 
to the height of 150 sass ~ Gromoyt length is more than 
seven hundre 
The face of the country in Provedse’ is very different from 
that in Languedoc. Instead of the fertility which had every 
where surrounded us, we found, after crossing the Rhone, 
barren stones, and rocks most thickly scattered about, and 
sometimes rising into bleak desolate mountains. These 
hardly support a few blades of grass, though formerly they 
were covered with forests. Probably when the wood was 
cut down, the soil was dried up and blown away. Marseilles 
is a beautiful city, scarcely, if at all inferior to Bordeaux, but 
I have not room te give you any account of it. 
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