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is celebrated for the gypsum quarries formed in the bowels 

 of the hill. Many marks of balls on the houses, could not 

 fail to call to our remembrance the attack made by the Al- 

 lies in 1814; but some workmen seemed to think it neces- 

 sary to refresh the memories of Messieurs les Anglois on 

 that topic, so sore to the French people. The beds of ter- 

 tiary gypsum which compose the hill, have been fully and 

 accurately described by Brongniart and Cuvier, in their 

 Mineralogical Geography of the Environs of Paris ; and 

 any remarks on them seem unnecessary. We here saw 

 some of the principal guingettes, or public-houses with ar- 

 bour-gardens, to which the lower orders of Parisians resort, 

 to eat fruit and drink lemonade and wine. They are on 

 a par with the second-rate tea-gardens near London. When 

 there is the addition of an orchestra, and a dancing-green 

 or a covered salle a danse, the title of hastringue is be- 

 stowed. The sloping grounds to the northward, to a con- 

 siderable distance, are clothed with vine-plantations. 



We returned towards Paris, and procured a fiacre to 

 take us to the 



Jardin chs Planies, 

 where we viewed some parts which we had formerly been 

 obliged to pass very slightly over. 



Among these were the buttcs,' which foim the Arbore- 

 tum of the garden, and at once afford shelter and produce 

 ornament. The collection of resiniferous trees growing on 

 the hillocks near the Amphitheatre is large and interesting, 

 some of the kinds being rare, and many of the specimens 

 now forming considerable trees. The Corsica pine, Pin us 

 Laricio of Lamarck in the Encyclopedic, has attained a 

 large size, and seems deserving of the particular notice of 

 the Society. It inhabits the mountains of Corsica, ar.d it 

 seems probable that it will grow wherever the Scots fir 



