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thousands, moments, and hours, and days, 
of little excursions of cheerfulness and plea- 
sure, and which, at the same time, promote 
the health, and enlarge the ideas and the re- 
flexions of the people. They gratify the re- 
sidents and visitors of the metropolis, and 
their fame is extended through all the coun- 
try. Now, whatever adorns or ennobles a 
city or a country, promotes the love of that 
country or city, impresses the imagination, 
enchains the memory, presents an object to 
be recollected, and to be loved; and the 
beautiful buildings, parks, gardens, statues, 
and pictures, to be found, either in a city or 
in a country, are so many links of memory 
and of attachment. In the scenery of Na- 
ture, forests, rivers, mountains, and lakes, as 
well as trees, herbs, flowers, and all the softer 
features of the landscape, appeal to the senses , 
of the spectator, and bespeak his love for the 
spot in which they are seen; and bind them- 
selves in his memory, and perpetuate his re- 
gard. But it is equally so with the works of 
human labour, industry and genius. We love 
our country, as we love every thing else, for 
all that it contains of beautiful, for all that it 
