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some of the larger streams, and the long deep sheets of 

 water which are to be met with in this part of the 

 river. 



THE MEUSE, 



ETC. 



'Mid yon romantic hills and valleys wild, 



Where the rude peasant of the Vosges dwells, 



Where lavish Nature scatters beauty round, 



And the sweet phantoms of the poet, still 



Haunt the dim forests on its classic shore, 



The rapid Meuse first rears its infant head, 



And winding gladly through a laughing land, 



Girdles the white walls of that old chateau, 



WTiere once my fathers dwelt. The ruin yet 



Peers o'er the glancing stream, as if to trace 



Its wasting visage in that shifting glass. 



Below, full forty leagues, the advancing tide, 



Swelled by the volume of the Sambre's wave, 



Rolls in full grandeur through the deep-gulphed span 



Of Namur's tune -stained arch. The Confession. 



JWeuse, tjje JttoselU, anfc tfje 3a&me, foit& tfmr 

 Streams. 



ONLY a part of each of these three important rivers can 

 be considered as connected with France. The Meuse 

 and the Moselle take their rise in one of its mountain 

 districts, and flow a considerable distance through it, 

 but ultimately make their exit in a different country. 

 The Rhine is only a boundary river to a small part of 

 the kingdom, just skirting it on the departments of the 

 Upper and Lower Rhine. 



The MEUSE takes its rise in the department of the 

 Haute Marne; and when it arrives at the town of Bour- 



