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buildings generally, as in almost all the towns of France, 

 are entitled to attentive examination. The churches the 

 noble library and the museum, which contains thirty 

 valuable paintings by the old Italian masters, are more 

 particularly deserving of notice. 



Before its junction with the Rhone, the I sere receives 

 the waters of the small river Bourne, which has a run of 

 about thirty miles from its source, and is full of trout. 

 The country along its banks is of unrivalled beauty, and 

 must be admitted on all hands to be enchanting in the 

 extreme. 



The other tributaries, which lose their waters in the 

 Rhone below the junction of the Isere, are the following : 

 the Drome, which runs a course of thirty or forty miles, 

 from its rise on the borders of the department of the 

 Upper Alps; the Roubion, which has a very limited 

 range; the Ardeche, which is twenty or thirty miles in 

 length, and has its rise near the sources of the Loire; 

 the Coze, which is a stream of similar magnitude, and 

 traverses about the same distance; the Gardon, which 

 flows about thirty miles from its source; the Ouvere, and 

 the Durance, a beautiful river, which rises in the depart- 

 ment of the Upper Alps, and has a tortuous course of 

 about a hundred and twenty miles. All these streams are 

 supplied, in their downward course, by little tributaries 

 of their own; and numerous other small rivulets, which 

 are scarcely worthy of enumeration, also lend their aid 

 at frequent intervals, to swell the increasing volume of 

 the Rhone. 



The entire waters in this district abound with excellent 

 fish; and if the angler will choose the proper season, he 

 will never be disappointed of a fair share of sport. 



The city of Avignon, which is situated just above the 



