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card and ball attracted hosts of strangers, has now 

 become a place of fashionable resort, to read the 

 daily papers, and to soothe their cares with strains 

 of choicest music. There is a beautiful and 

 commodious garden attached to it. 



Aix-la-Chapelle seems utterly bereft of fine 

 timber. How comes it, that a city so ancient 

 and so rich as this, cannot produce one single 

 solitary large son of the forest within its walls ? 



There seems, at the present time, a strong public 

 feeling to repair dilapidations, and to ornament 

 the streets with brilliant shops. Most necessary 

 improvements have already been effected, — much 

 for the public good. 



Here T close my cursory remarks on the vene- 

 rable city of King Charles the Great; having 

 carefully avoided the penning down of matter, 

 which I consider to be the property of analysers, 

 physicians, and economists. I have consulted 

 no books; but have contented myself with com- 

 mitting to paper, that which attracted my notice 

 in my daily rambles through the streets. My 

 chief object has been to shew, that those who 

 travel far away into the continent, in quest of 

 restorative waters, might save themselves both 

 trouble and expense, by a sojourn at Aix-la- 

 Chapelle, where everything is found, that can 



