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conversing in English ; and is quick in discovering the 

 shades of difference in the language, as spoken by Ameri- 

 cans and Scotsmen, and by a well-educated Englishman. 

 He holds an office in the Administration of the Jardin, and 

 projects the publication of a descriptive history of the whole 

 establishment *. 



We have only to add, that there are no fewer than three 

 professors immediately connected with the botanical depart- 

 ment. M. Desfontaines lectures on the physiology and 

 the arrangement of plants : he is " professeur de botanique 

 au Museum. 1 ' M. de Jussieu gives herborizations, or is 

 " professeur de botanique a la campagne : v he occasionally 

 summonses his pupils to a rendezvous at some distance 

 from Paris, and accompanies them through forests and 

 marshy grounds, where many rare native plants may be 

 picked up. M. Andre' Thouin is " professeur de cul- 

 ture et naturalization des vegetaux:" he gives lectures, 

 three times a week, at the early hour of 6 in the morning, 

 on all the branches of horticulture and agriculture. 



The Gobelins, 



This royal establishment being in the neighbourhood, in 

 Rue Mouffetin, we repaired thither, and spent an hour in 

 viewing it. Here the richest and most beautiful tapestry 

 of modern times is manufactured ; and we saw workmen 

 copying, in their looms, portraits and historical pieces by 

 eminent painters. At the back of the manufactory is the la- 

 boratory, where the worsteds are dyed of every possible hue. 



* In August 1821, M. Royer shewed me some of the printed sheets of 

 this work. As soon as a sheet of the French edition is printed off, he trans- 

 lates it into English ; so that the work will appear in hoth languages at once. 

 Though the translation may not be uniformly idiomatic, yet it will be found 

 remarkably free from the usual gallicisms, and will justify the encomium, be- 

 stowed on M. Rover's attainments in our language. — N. 



