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of figures representing the story of Christ and the Samaritan woman. 

 These statues were taken down by order of the National Convention. 



Another bridge, called the P;>NT AU CHANGE, had also a statue 

 of Louis XIV. in brass; and both this and ihe bridge of Notre 

 Dame, on which are also water- works, iiave each iwo rows of 

 houses upon them ; those of the first being four, and of the last two 

 stories high. 



The Seine, passing through Normandy (now divided into five de. 

 partments), visits Rouen, and falls into the British Channel near 

 Havre de Grace. 



The great and small rivers in SPAIN are said to amount to an 

 hundred and fifty; the principal of these are the Minho, which rises 

 inGalicia; the Douro, which has its source m Old Castile, in a 

 part of the mountains of Idubeda ; the Tagus, rising in a mountain 

 in New Castile, which it passes through, the city ot Toledo being 

 situated on its banks, and the river encompassing ii in the form of a 

 horse-shoe. It bounds the Portuguese province of Beira to the 

 south, passes through that of Estramadura, and discharges itself into 

 the Atlantic. Lisbon, the capital of Portugal, is situated near its 

 mouth. All the great rivers of PORTUGAL have their sources in 

 Spain. Thus the Guadiaiia also issues from New Castile, deriving 

 its source from some lakes, at a small distance from which it takes 

 its course between high mountains, in which it conceals itself for 

 near three mil' j s, and then re-appears in a fenny soil, but soon hides 

 itself again amidst reeds and rocks, which probably gave occasion 

 to the mistaken idea of its losing itself undtr-ground. This river 

 separates the Spanish province of Andalusia from Portuguese Al- 

 garva. The Guadalquiver, or Great River, by the aucients called 

 Baetis, and Tartessus, begins its course in Andalusia, where several 

 small streams issuing from Mount Segura unite in a lake, from which 

 this river flaws. From Corduba to Seville, it is passable only by 

 small craft; but from the last city to its mouth, it, is navigable by 

 ships of burden, though dangerous on account of its many sand- 

 banks. The Ebro rises in the mountains of Santillane, in Old Cas- 

 tile, from two springs, and receives upward of thirty brooks in its 

 course, becoming navigable near Tudela ; ito> navigation, however, 

 is dangerous, on account of its many rocks ; at length it discharges 

 itself with great rapidity into the Mediterranean, and its mouth forms 

 the little island of Alfacs. 



