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this verdant roof, as happily as the wealthy 

 dame, who, bedecked by the art of the humble 

 lace-maker, can sing or sigh under the gayest 

 dome of the proudest saloon. 



English towns are strikingly deficient in 

 these agreeable avenues, whose shade renders 

 the summer promenade so agreeable, and 

 gives such cheerfulness to the entrance of 

 towns ; for there can be no sight more pleas- 

 ing to the traveller, than that of beholding 

 the humble stalls of the little fruit-merchants, 

 intermixed and overlooked by the knitting 

 grandmother or netting grandfather, with 

 here and there a seat occupied by the wounded 

 soldier ; nor is the fume of the sailor's pipe so 

 offensive in this situation, as at the chequered 

 door of the narrow street. 



Spain owes her vistas, which are the pride 

 of Aranjuez, Casel del Campo, Madrid, and 

 other royal demesnes, to the union of its 

 Philip with Mary of England; as before that 

 period elms were not known in Spain, Philip 

 the Second having caused them to be taken 

 from England, and planted in his native land. 

 The elm is an aboriginal of Barbary, as well 

 as the south and south-east parts of Europe. 

 Linnaeus says, it is rarely to be found above 

 Helsing and Finland. 



The elms of England are scarcely less re- 



