. The encyclopædia of geography: comprising a complete description of the earth, physical, statistical, civil, and political. Royal. 282. Church of St. Genevieve. liant points of view to be found m any city. ority became apparent: however, it isstill an edifice of a high class (fig. 282.)St. Sulpice is also a modern has no fine streets, nor any of thoseample squares which are so great an or-nament of London. It boasts, however,of its places, which, without having theregular form or dimensions of a square,command admiration by tlie ranges ofnoble buildings that surround them. In


. The encyclopædia of geography: comprising a complete description of the earth, physical, statistical, civil, and political. Royal. 282. Church of St. Genevieve. liant points of view to be found m any city. ority became apparent: however, it isstill an edifice of a high class (fig. 282.)St. Sulpice is also a modern has no fine streets, nor any of thoseample squares which are so great an or-nament of London. It boasts, however,of its places, which, without having theregular form or dimensions of a square,command admiration by tlie ranges ofnoble buildings that surround them. Inparticular, the Place Louis Quinze,standing in a central situation among thepalaces, presents one of the most bril-This capital possesses also great advantages in Boor J. FRANCE. 547 the wide ornamented open spaces which lie in the very lieart of the city. The Boulevards,the ancient rampart of Paris, when it was circumscribed within a much narrower compass]a-re now converted into a walk adorned with rows of trees, and filled with numerous exhi-bitors and venders of every thing that can conduce to public amusement. The gardens ofthe


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