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different kinds in different countries, according to the rude 

 materials afforded in them by nature ; and next in equalising 

 enjoyments, by bringing those of different countries to bear on 

 the indigenous enjoyments of any one and of every country. 

 The progress which has been made towards this result is 

 greater than may at first sight appear. In two or three spots 

 on the globe, industry has obtained the richest fruits from 

 crabs, sloes, and other wildings ; and these have been distri- 

 buted wherever man is civilised. The most useful grains 

 and edible roots may be said to be in universal cultivation. 

 The orange and the pine-apple are eaten in every capital in 

 the world ; wine, ice, sugar, tea, and coffee are also common 

 every where. The enlightened application of the power of 

 steam will in a very few years equalise, all over the globe, 

 every human enjoyment which is portable ; and man will then 

 visit man in every clime, with greater ease and comfort than, 

 a century ago, he could have taken a journey of fifty miles in 

 the most civilised country in Europe. The tendency of every 

 thing in human affairs is to advance, and, in advancing, to 

 approach nearer and nearer to a level. This level will never 

 be attained ; because, like still water, it would be inconsistent 

 with that motion and progress which belong to the consti- 

 tution of human society ; but, nevertheless, it is nature's beau 

 ideal. All possible enjoyments will never be common to all ; 

 but to all they will be open, according to their different capa- 

 cities for attaining them. 



The Boulevards, outer and inner, as public promenades, 

 may be included under our present division of the subject. 

 They act to a great city like breathing zones (Vol. V. p. 686.), 

 and, as promenades, are great sources of enjoyment. The 

 trees consist almost entirely of the small-leaved elm : a great 

 many of them were, during the July Revolution, cut down:; 

 and, we doubt not, others will be planted in their stead 

 about the time when this Magazine reaches Paris. 



We cannot help earnestly wishing that they may be 

 planted in a manner suitable to the progress of the age ; and 

 that, instead of monotonous lines of elms, there may be a 

 representative system of all the vigorous-growing timber 

 trees which would flourish in the open air in the latitude of 

 Paris. On looking over the " Diagram for the Composition 

 of Arboretums in Lines along the Margins of Walks," in our 

 Illustrations of Landscape -Gardening, Parti. Plate 2., we find 

 that the number of these, exclusively of the pine and fir tribes 

 (which tribes we do not think would find, under the streets of 

 Paris, a suitable medium for their surface-growing and wide- 

 spreading roots), amounts to nearly 300 species and varieties. 



