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GENERAL REMARKS ON YEDO. 
Chap. XII. 
in Paris or like Regent Street in London. Indeed 
the habits and wants of the people are so different 
from those of European nations, that we have 
little in common for a comparison. But, never- 
theless, Yedo is a wonderful place, and will always 
possess attractions peculiarly its own in the eyes of 
a foreign visitor. It is of great size for an Ori- 
ental city; its palace surrounded by deep moats 
and grassy banks, the official quarter, the resi- 
dences of the native princes, its wide streets, and 
beautiful bay will always he looked upon with a 
certain degree of interest. Then, the views which 
are obtained from the hills in its neighbourhood 
are such as may well challenge comparison with 
those of any other town in Europe or elsewhere. 
Its suburbs, too, as I have already shown, are 
remarkable in many ways. Those beautiful val- 
leys, wooded hills, and quiet lanes fringed with 
noble trees and evergreen hedges, would be diffi- 
cult to match in any other part of the world. 
