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rebuilt in a few years, while no cost can replace the latter; and a reflection some- 
what similar must have passed through the mind of Napoleon, had he lived to 
witness the present broken, patched, and miserable aspect of one of the most 
striking and indispensable features of his triumphal arch. and to see in prospect, 
that even when the last victims to the destructive attacks of the despised Scolyti— 
foes which, from his ignorance of intomology, had conquered even him—should 
‘have been cut down, and the wisightly gaps attempted to be filled up by planting 
young trees in their place, neither he nor his successor could ever witness in this 
the proudest monument of his mwign the mingled splendour and grace which it 
vould have exhibited, if approached, as he meant it to have been, through a full- 
grown, entire, and majestic ayenue, 
